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abhor

[ab-hawr] / æbˈhɔr /


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Social media is the new breeding ground for the kind of toxicity that the people mining Panettiere’s death for views purport to abhor.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

This isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 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

I abhor the rainbow stripe and would prefer something along the lines of a simple skull and crossbones.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

But Pascal’s simple experiment demolished Aristotle’s assertion that nature abhors a vacuum.

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

Mr. Paul explained, then and many times afterward, that he abhorred racism and supported abolition of discrimination in all governmental activity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

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

There was also a scientific reason that the vegetable came to be abhorred by many whose parents and grandparents had loved the vegetable.

From Salon Nov. 20, 2023

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

His father had abhorred waste of any kind, to the point where he complained to Ashima if a kettle had been filled with too much water.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Despite abhorring analytics, Barkley’s adventures in mathematics have routinely made for amazing television.

From Slate Apr. 29, 2018

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

We who abide by the laws are surely justified in shunning, in abhorring, those who deliberately break them.

From The Benefactress by Elizabeth




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