phobia
Example Sentences
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And there's another phenomenon that has been termed "complexity phobia": the aversion to recognising incontrovertible evidence and facts if they challenge a more comfortable and comforting narrative.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
The plaintiff’s former therapist, Victoria Burke, testified that she diagnosed Kaley with body dysmorphia and social phobia, a type of anxiety disorder, in her early teens.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Today she listens to me rant about my slimy mollusk phobia, and I push back against her competitive streak with my own.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
Like addiction or phobia, it narrows lives and corrodes resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025
With an allergy to abstraction and a phobia of cliche, Wilkerson trains a magnifying glass on the historical blob called “the Great Migration” and reveals the humanity of the people who compose it.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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