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And when he saw his grip slipping, he turned to the type of sheer hatred he otherwise claimed to abhor.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

The front-runner, 60-year-old BNP chairman Tarique Rahman, represents the dynastic politics that many educated Bangladeshis abhor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Briloff would say that markets abhor uncertainty, and less frequent reporting only adds more.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

“We abhor and condemn antisemitism in any form,” the California Teachers Assn., wrote in a July letter to the state Senate Education Committee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Why should nature abhor a vacuum less at the top of a mountain than at the bottom?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

While Mrs. Bennet abhors glasses on women, Mary embraces them, the better to read her books with.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

During the conversation, Muir makes it clear he abhors crowded trades.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

While he abhors actors who think “mumbling is interesting,” he doesn’t overwhelm younger actors who ask for advice with too much detail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

That, however, would require something Generation Z abhors: boredom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Pascal’s interpretation of the experiment was in direct contradiction to Aristotle’s claim that nature abhors a vacuum.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Mr. Paul explained, then and many times afterward, that he abhorred racism and supported abolition of discrimination in all governmental activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Senators, Sandvine later announced that it would no longer work with Belarus, saying that it abhorred “the use of technology to suppress the free flow of information resulting in human rights violations.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Mr. Fletcher abhorred slavery as an affront before God.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

He was a fighter for poor minorities, abhorring the gang violence that had taken over in his adopted home of Los Angeles and working for decades to help disadvantaged inner-city kids.

From Washington Times ● May 20, 2023

Kennedy sought liberal outcomes while abhorring instability and uncertainty.

From Slate ● May 27, 2017

Politically, he remained exceptionally conservative, abhorring social unrest and invariably supporting law and order.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

The libretto, by Mr. Morrison and John Cox, an opera director and Wilde scholar, is a high-minded affair, preaching tolerance and abhorring bigotry at every turn.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013

Here Lucifer called together all his chieftains, who now "Unto each other turned abhorring gaze."

From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel