hate
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But it also plays into an archetype we love to hate — the femme fatale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Facebook does not benefit from hate, and we have no incentive other than to remove it when we find it,” the company said in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"I know there's a union and I hate to have people out of work," she said, adding: "It's a little bit confining for the horses."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
I felt that those textures signaled … I hate using the word “dystopian,” but the dystopian future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
I should tell him I don’t hate him.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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“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
Everybody hates them, everyone thinks that they cheated and he just walks on the pitch and says, 'give me the ball lads, let me have some fun'.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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
Author and veteran television critic Alan Sepinwall hates spoilers, but he has some guidelines around what constitutes one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Tariq hates hugs, but he grins to let her know his feelings.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
I’m Iranian American, and in this world today, I’m from two of the most hated countries in the world — Iran and America — but I’m extremely loved as a person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Asked about the impact of AI, she said she believed the industry was doing a "really great job" at rejecting it, because players hated it.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Man, I hated time traveling to years before regular bathing was a thing.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
Among all the discourse sparked by a “No Influencers” sign in a Nantucket store, one question cuts through: “Does hating influencers mean hating women?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Such fabrics are hydrophobic, or water hating, similar to grease and oils.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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 brushed his hand away and took a step back, hating the sting of his words, hating my own pettiness even more.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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