hate
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"I hate it to end this way... All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
I had to take it in for a couple of recalls and they gave me a regular F-150, which I hate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
He is said to hate imposing any assignments on his clerks that would require them to work on the weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
After contributing to Social Security throughout my entire working life, I’d hate to end up with an unexpected tax bill.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
I hate it when my clothes get wet and my skin turns wrinkly.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
He admits he "hates budgeting and always has" so he says he looks at his current account as soon as he gets paid and decides how much he wants to move into savings.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Trump has agreed to restore the sanctions on Russian oil and proclaimed that he hates to see all the dying and will do whatever he can to get Russia to the negotiating table.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Glatzer: My own kid is 17 years old, he hates AI and finds it deeply uncool, and I think that is great.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Kay: Do you know who hates that about us?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Even though she hates me now, I have to protect her if I can.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Meanwhile, Shah is apparently hated by Illinois Democrats for his time there?
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2026
And although he said he hated it, the Roger Cook doorstep was, he felt, essential.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
In it, Vance credits Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk — who is even more hated than her dead husband — for convincing his wife, Usha Vance, to have a fourth child.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
The course’s owners could have easily sold the land for development, but they hated to turn their backs on the community, especially as the course neared its 100th anniversary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
He’d hated her from the first moment he’d smelt her, as she pointed the Long-Claw-that-Flies at his pack-brother.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
In this age when animus eats discernment like the rich eat caviar, the luxury we really can’t afford is hating the good guys just because it’s easy — even if they’re billionaires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
"It's really frightening. And I think all of us need to work hard at trying to teach our children and our children's children about not hating other people for being slightly different from yourself."
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
I think the character was designed to start hating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
He looked at it regretfully, hating to leave it.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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