hate
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From Jan. 1 through August, New York City recorded 229 anti-Jewish hate crimes, an 8% increase from the same period in 2025, according to the New York Police Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Collectors hate buying things 50% off,” Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
"I made the decision, even though I hate the statement, to drop the case," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
In a 1998 concert review for The New York Times, writer Ann Powers opened with: “Don’t hate Duncan Sheik because he’s beautiful. He is trying very hard to distance himself from that fact.”
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Clicking his tongue and shaking his head, he said, “That is a nasty cut but the tendon hasn’t been hurt at all. I hate to see anything crippled like that. It’s pitiful.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Wall Street normally hates price cuts, but some analysts didn’t mind the ones announced by Target on Tuesday.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
No, he hates me because I became more famous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
There wasn’t a smartphone in sight—Rees says she hates technology and has home-schooled her children since learning how reliant schools had become on screens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
He hates Obama for making fun of him then.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Tariq hates hugs, but he grins to let her know his feelings.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Asked about the impact of AI, she said she believed the industry was doing a "really great job" at rejecting it, because players hated it.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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
He tried golf, was terrible at it, hated it, and went back to work manufacturing $5 electric toothbrushes because he found it more engaging than the golf course.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Saturday’s must-see spectacle is LSU’s trip to Ole Miss. Lane Kiffin, the most hated coach in college football, will return to the program he jilted last season and try to silence 64,000 bloodthirsty fans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
He didn’t like the sadness in her big brown eyes, but he hated that no one believed him about Pili even more.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham said in the article.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
She started a degree at the London School of Economics, but left after "absolutely hating" student life in the capital, instead deciding to study politics at Nottingham University.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
I was just picturing them both hating how I bastardized their song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
We’re mostly beyond hating and bragging at this point, happy to be vertical or angled a bit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Or maybe he was heartsick, hating her for what her daddy did to her but still not willing to give her up.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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