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be grossed out by



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Gnats will get stuck to the yellow sticker — just be prepared to be grossed out by how many you catch.

From Salon ● May 9, 2022

Still, just like puberty, disgust seems to be “biological and hardwired,” Pizarro says, as everyone sooner or later will be grossed out by something.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2018

It is even OK to be grossed out by someone’s advances, as long as those advances stop once you make clear you aren’t into it.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2017

Some teens might be grossed out by a bowl of bananas starting to rot and attract flies; high school student Garimella came up with a potentially life-saving idea.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2016

What the Siegels have done is detonate a nuclear bomb of tasteless decadence; even the worst mansion-dwelling dictator in the world might be grossed out by the half-finished Versailles.

From Time ● Jul. 19, 2012




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