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The front-runner, 60-year-old BNP chairman Tarique Rahman, represents the dynastic politics that many educated Bangladeshis abhor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Briloff would say that markets abhor uncertainty, and less frequent reporting only adds more.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

“I disagree with or even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him isn’t the answer either.”

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We abhor and condemn all incidents like this in the strongest terms and continue to support Police Scotland with their ongoing investigation.”

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2024

Lord Darlington came to abhor anti-Semitism; I heard him express his disgust on several separate occasions when confronted with anti-Semitic sentiments.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

While Mrs. Bennet abhors glasses on women, Mary embraces them, the better to read her books with.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

During the conversation, Muir makes it clear he abhors crowded trades.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

That, however, would require something Generation Z abhors: boredom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Nature abhors a vacuum and markets aren’t all that keen on it either.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

If nature abhors a vacuum, an imagination adores one.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

He was a political progressive who abhorred radicalism, an antimonopolist who recognized the inevitability of large corporations and chose to regulate rather than ban them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Senators, Sandvine later announced that it would no longer work with Belarus, saying that it abhorred “the use of technology to suppress the free flow of information resulting in human rights violations.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Founded in 1909 by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, futurists glorified technology and abhorred political and artistic movements that were rooted in historical tradition.

From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022

To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2020

Kennedy sought liberal outcomes while abhorring instability and uncertainty.

From Slate ● May 27, 2017

Politically, he remained exceptionally conservative, abhorring social unrest and invariably supporting law and order.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

The libretto, by Mr. Morrison and John Cox, an opera director and Wilde scholar, is a high-minded affair, preaching tolerance and abhorring bigotry at every turn.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013

Thus, practically abhorring the name of Dissent, Methodists became Dissenters themselves, and certainly as a sect put forth, as the above extract teaches, the strongest claims to a Divine origin and sanction.

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)