dislike
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With a huge transfer under way, you may inherit shares of companies that you dislike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
“I know with the Democratic Club and many other clubs, there’s been loud dislike with us,” Tedesco said.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I personally dislike this style,” said Nathan Luckock, a 20-year-old engineer at an AI startup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
What should you do if you dislike your friend's partner?
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Oh, I will. As soon as I find the specific sheep that contributed to my diminishing dislike of winter, I plan to write a thank-you note.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Whether or not someone dislikes rankings, one has to acknowledge that there are huge differences in how universities educate students,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
"The challenge goes way beyond just putting AI into a robot," said Lian Jye Su from technology research group Omdia, who dislikes the term "physical AI" for downplaying the complexity of the hardware solutions needed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
James Piper, co-host of the Talking Rubbish podcast, co-owner of Ecosurety, said he dislikes BuzzBallz because of how difficult they are to recycle.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Every day for an hour I sat in Luce’s office and talked about my life, my feelings, my likes and dislikes.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Half of Americans told Pew they were very concerned about AI's role in the economy, while 59 percent said they disliked political leaders supporting data centers in the respondents' localities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
A disliked corner of the stock market really isn’t as bad as it seems, according to StoneX.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
He rarely issued press releases, didn’t convene news conferences, and disliked raising campaign money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
She’s won praise for removing a widely disliked Xbox AI assistant and making it easier for people who own games on discs to get digital copies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
I found I disliked him more when I left than when I had entered.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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Yet she often avoids office collections on principle, not personality, disliking how impersonal they can feel.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
When the bubble is big enough, it shifts the behavior of the market as a whole from disliking capital expenditure, and hating speculative capital spending in particular, to loving it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Some readers confessed to never having seen the film whose soundtrack they love; others even reported disliking it.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2024
Mulvaney then told Barrymore, “I look at someone like you and can’t imagine anybody disliking you.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
But Digory was disliking his Uncle more every minute, so he said nothing.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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