abhor
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How ironic that 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
Who cares if members of your family abhor your Inner Stickler and devoutly wish you had an Inner Scooby-Doo instead?
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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“Nature abhors a vacuum, and really, the only person who can speak for the committee is the chair,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
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
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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
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
In the midst of my pain of heart and frantic effort of principle, I abhorred myself.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
But, at least and lowest, I would have you a Population abhorring phantasms;—abhorring unveracity in all things; and in your ‘amusements,’ which are voluntary and not compulsory things, abhorring it most impatiently of all....
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
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