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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

“We abhor and condemn antisemitism in any form,” the California Teachers Assn., wrote in a July letter to the state Senate Education Committee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

While Mrs. Bennet abhors glasses on women, Mary embraces them, the better to read her books with.

From Salon ● Jun. 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

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

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

“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

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

He was a man of ‘great honesty,’ abhorring any deceit in the art he loved and studied.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams


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