recoil

Simplifying the steering system was an important part of achieving that size while retaining propulsion based on photon recoil.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

We recoil at AI-generated music, art and writing—expressions of critical thinking, creativity and soul that have been replaced by a machine’s data aggregation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

He smiled after I busted him for looking, which made me recoil in horror and quickly dart over to hide in the pet food aisle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Even in a deeply polarized time, many Americans remain wired to recoil from acts of violence and to feel sympathy for their victims.

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026

I recoil and drop the crust, but Woo snags it out of the air before it can hit the ground.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Having fashioned a creature from dead body parts, the scientist recoils from the result, which appears to him to be a monster of “unparalleled barbarity,” and abandons his construction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

When Maggie makes an ambiguous reference to Alma’s history, her professor recoils.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025

He practices a politics of inspiration, and the Surge recoils at politicians who try to inspire us.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2025

You see Oppenheimer recoil, even if what he recoils from is left pointedly out of frame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

But even now she recoils at the thought of living with her own in-laws.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

With high inflation ravaging the economy, Greenspan recoiled when he learned Ford’s advisers planned a grassroots movement to encourage personal savings by passing out buttons that proclaimed, “Whip Inflation Now.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Walking into his kitchen, Tim Yoder recoiled at a message on his refrigerator door: “Shop Samsung water filters.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Amid the rebuke, brands have recoiled back within the antiseptic neutrality where they’re most comfortable: irrelevant celebrity cameos, cheap millennial nostalgia, unmoored wistfulness for simpler days.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026

As an unknown theater actor, Reiner recoiled when strangers pegged him merely as “Carl Reiner’s son.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

He recoiled from her, from the look of her.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

Americans are recoiling at rising restaurant and coffee prices and eating out less, making Starbucks’s turnaround more challenging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025

We’ll see if voters can reward this one while recoiling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025

De Guzman, who also curated an art show called “Roots of Cool” about trees, noted that Los Angeles seems to actually shrink during the hotter months, as if recoiling from the sun.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2025

So rather than staying in the cycle of having a knee-jerk negative reaction each time I scrolled past a new lurid selfie and then feeling guilty for recoiling, I unfollowed her.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

Collectively recoiling from the native population of the Americas, Europeans learned how to become a new version of themselves.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann