repulsive
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Mr. Ireland indicates the uneven power dynamics involved when Leigh, though squirming at the idea, is needled into answering the same repulsive question, settling on Margaret Thatcher.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
The young woman told jurors Thursday she began using Instagram’s built-in beauty filters when she was 9 and soon found her unedited image repulsive.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
“And besides, the idea that a few will survive on Mars, while billions die on Earth is so morally repulsive that any programme foolish enough to adopt it would be doomed,” he wrote.
From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025
Head coach Thomas Tuchel, who apologised to Bellingham earlier this year for describing his on-field behaviour as "repulsive", said he would review the midfielder's reaction.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025
This can happen only at very high temperatures where the particles are moving so fast that the repulsive force does not have time to act—temperatures of tens of millions of degrees.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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