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[hayt] / heɪt /




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What travelers have come to hate, however, are chore checklists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The result, she says, is a deep inherited mistrust: Mizrahim don’t hate Arabs, and even feel cultural affinity with them, but they will not trust a Muslim majority to guarantee their safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

But it also plays into an archetype we love to hate — the femme fatale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Separate reviews were also commissioned into antisemitism in healthcare and into public order and hate crime laws.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Every year Dad would walk out of the fairgrounds with at least one human-sized stuffed something or other on his shoulders, and every year all of us would hate Mom for being such a downer.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Although Hanawalt might be an unapologetic horse girl, she really hates a horse pun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“I was talking to a Republican consultant who ran one of the big super PACs and he, like, hates all of their media consultants,” Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, told me.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Los Angeles is the behemoth everyone hates, to the point their spending and dominance may result in an extended lockout and work stoppage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Wall Street normally hates price cuts, but some analysts didn’t mind the ones announced by Target on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Bubbe hates it when she visits and the house is a mess.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

His parents covered the rental cost while he paid for gas, but he hated sitting in traffic, parking and feeling disconnected from the city.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

But here’s one example: Before I had electrolysis to remove my facial hair, I hated seeing and feeling the stubble on my face.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026

Her mother, Gemma, says Audrina has always hated hospital food and is determined to bring about change.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

We loved getting paid for it, but we hated that they used actors to pretend they were us, when we were just as smart and talented as anybody that was being put on the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I hated to admit it, but going with James had provided me with a little hope that everything would be all right.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The actors will soon slip into their 1967 costumes as the impoverished Greasers and the privileged Socs — and spend the next two hours hating each other onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

We’re mostly beyond hating and bragging at this point, happy to be vertical or angled a bit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

A whole generation grew up under repression, economic collapse and came of age hating him, said Narges Bajoghli, associate professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

"When you haven't written for a long time, you start being extremely self-critical. So I was hating everything I was coming out with," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

And if he knew about her past...She whimpered, hating herself for it, and for the tears that began sliding down her face, across the bridge of her nose and onto the floor.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas


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