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hate

[hayt] / heɪt /




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"If you hate me maybe that's even more fun to play."

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Luckily, if you hate your current birth control, Mia Armstrong-López is here to tell you about a new option that might be a better fit.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

It’s a big old contrarian world, and there are people who hate sunsets and pizza.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

"We're worried they hate us," a Maine retiree sitting with friends told AFP in Fort Kent, as she nodded towards Canada, visible across the Saint John River.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Since the end of that week in February when they decided they didn’t hate each other after all until she left for Winnipeg, Cameron Sound pretty much hadn’t stopped touching her.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

For finalist Max German, the Boston bona fides were obvious: He hates Starbucks, loves the Kennedys and has some questionable driving skills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

“I was talking to a Republican consultant who ran one of the big super PACs and he, like, hates all of their media consultants,” Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, told me.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Everybody hates them, everyone thinks that they cheated and he just walks on the pitch and says, 'give me the ball lads, let me have some fun'.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Wall Street normally hates price cuts, but some analysts didn’t mind the ones announced by Target on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Except not marry a person she hates, Anya thought.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

But here’s one example: Before I had electrolysis to remove my facial hair, I hated seeing and feeling the stubble on my face.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026

The eruption of chaos in the stadium was certainly helped by the fact that the fan groups hated each other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Her mother, Gemma, says Audrina has always hated hospital food and is determined to bring about change.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

We loved getting paid for it, but we hated that they used actors to pretend they were us, when we were just as smart and talented as anybody that was being put on the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

“And I probably asked too many questions. She hated that.”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

He stood there and watched as the Rays celebration raged on, reflecting on another failed season and, he said, “just hating every single moment of it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The actors will soon slip into their 1967 costumes as the impoverished Greasers and the privileged Socs — and spend the next two hours hating each other onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Why don't we stop hating on young people? Maybe that's where we should start as well."

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Such fabrics are hydrophobic, or water hating, similar to grease and oils.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

I stayed there until the sun started to descend, hating myself every single minute.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline


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