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abhor

[ab-hawr] / æbˈhɔr /


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Social media is the new breeding ground for the kind of toxicity that the people mining Panettiere’s death for views purport to abhor.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 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

“I disagree with or even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him isn’t the answer either.”

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

I abhor the rainbow stripe and would prefer something along the lines of a simple skull and crossbones.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

“Nature abhors a vacuum, and really, the only person who can speak for the committee is the chair,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

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

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

Her mother, Rose Mary Walls, was a hardy free spirit who hoped to succeed as a painter and abhorred the idea of bourgeois life.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

Founded in 1909 by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, futurists glorified technology and abhorred political and artistic movements that were rooted in historical tradition.

From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022

While I abhorred the notion of British imperialism, I never rejected the trappings of British style and manners.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

The Legion sought a more national and collective or communal basis for the economy, while abhorring the materialism of capitalism and of socialism.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 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

In these sentiments I grew, hated and abhorring, despising and contemned.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío


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