abhor
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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
Lord Darlington came to abhor anti-Semitism; I heard him express his disgust on several separate occasions when confronted with anti-Semitic sentiments.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
If nature abhors a vacuum, an imagination adores one.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
The public both abhorred and adored the scandal.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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
One concerned a house wife who abhorred spiders.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2020
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
He who owed his election to a general council was notorious for abhorring the very name of council.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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