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[ab-hawr] / æbˈhɔr /


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If you abhor Apple, Samsung’s recently launched Galaxy Tab S12+ is better for Android-PC productivity, but it’s more than twice the price at $1,199 and up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

“I have experienced discrimination, which I abhor when directed to me or to anyone else,” said DeJute, who is gay.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

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

Nature abhors a vacuum and markets aren’t all that keen on it either.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 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

By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

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

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

We who abide by the laws are surely justified in shunning, in abhorring, those who deliberately break them.

From The Benefactress by Elizabeth


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