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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 antisemitism in any form,” the California Teachers Assn., wrote in a July letter to the state Senate Education Committee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

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

He says that when a species becomes extinct, some other species moves in to fill up the ecological niche, because Nature abhors a vacuum.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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

Her mother, Rose Mary Walls, was a hardy free spirit who hoped to succeed as a painter and abhorred the idea of bourgeois life.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

Nature only abhorred a vacuum as far as 30 inches.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

He was a fighter for poor minorities, abhorring the gang violence that had taken over in his adopted home of Los Angeles and working for decades to help disadvantaged inner-city kids.

From Washington Times ● May 20, 2023

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

He was a man of ‘great honesty,’ abhorring any deceit in the art he loved and studied.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams