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abhorring



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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

Despite abhorring analytics, Barkley’s adventures in mathematics have routinely made for amazing television.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018

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

And his holiness what is it, but the abhorring of himself for that?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning



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