abhor
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How ironic that 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
This isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 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
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Martin abhors a perfect soul, and loves a human heart in conflict with itself and the world.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
During the conversation, Muir makes it clear he abhors crowded trades.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
That, however, would require something Generation Z abhors: boredom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Nature abhors a vacuum and markets aren’t all that keen on it either.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
But Pascal’s simple experiment demolished Aristotle’s assertion that nature abhors a vacuum.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 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
His father had abhorred waste of any kind, to the point where he complained to Ashima if a kettle had been filled with too much water.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2020
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
Those were the days of the time-honoured legends about Nature "abhorring a vacuum," tolerating no "breaks," and the wonders of her "curative force".
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by W. R. Washington Sullivan
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