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abhor

[ab-hawr] / æbˈhɔr /


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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

“I abhor that girl! I abhorred her all my life and I do not know how to stop to abhor her.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

Even today, children are taught “Nature abhors a vacuum,” while the teachers don’t really understand where that phrase came from.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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 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

Ferula abhorred the moment when her brother returned from the country and filled the house with his presence, breaking the harmony they had established while he was away.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

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

I was not a stranger to the science of the ring, while abhorring prize-fighting.

From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey




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