abhor
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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
“I disagree with or even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him isn’t the answer either.”
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
It is an astonishing, so to speak, over-the-top score, which you either love or abhor for its instrumental vulgarity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
Who cares if members of your family abhor your Inner Stickler and devoutly wish you had an Inner Scooby-Doo instead?
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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
The public both abhorred and adored the scandal.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
He was a political progressive who abhorred radicalism, an antimonopolist who recognized the inevitability of large corporations and chose to regulate rather than ban them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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
What's more, he welcomed the very debate that Jefferson abhorred.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2020
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
That I may be loyal to my Prince, and faithful to my country, careful for its good, valiant in its defence, and obedient to its Laws, abhorring Treason as much as Tyranny,—Help me, O Father!
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
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