aversion
Example Sentences
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“He has such an aversion to being liked,” David Thomson wrote, in a 1983 issue of Film Comment, about Shepard’s screen presence.
Europe’s other military power, there is widespread aversion to conscription, which ended in 1960.
With higher interest rates and more aversion to risk, banks are requiring builders to bring more cash to pair with a loan, according to developers, investors and lenders.
From Seattle Times
Those remarks, coupled with his aversion to old-fashioned “grip and grin” politics, may have given some supporters pause.
From New York Times
U.S. bank failures and the buyout of Credit Suisse by UBS last month have driven financial market risk aversion.
From Reuters
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