repulsion
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Or they could simply be arresting abstractions in a sculpture that sits aesthetically between formal attraction and repulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
At the time, watching these videos didn’t elicit nausea or repulsion in Jemima—they came across as amusing.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
Polling data backs up this anecdotal display of repulsion towards racist violence.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026
When people comment on them, I sometimes can’t tell if it’s out of admiration or a vague yet inquisitive repulsion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025
So, what if he started looking at her the way so many other people did, with a mixture of fascination and confusion and repulsion?
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Other interactions, such as nuclear-nuclear repulsions and nuclear-electron attractions, are also involved in the final arrangement that atoms adopt in a particular molecular structure.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
There is no simple method to predict the exceptions for atoms where the magnitude of the repulsions between electrons is greater than the small differences in energy between subshells.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
We can also learn how to get over our repulsions.
From The Verge ● May 9, 2018
Mr. Hastings writes incisively about the attractions and repulsions of the new media gossip.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2014
Tactism and Tropism.—The phenomena of tactism and tropism may also be partly explained by the action of these diffusion currents of particles in suspension, these polar attractions and repulsions.
From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane
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