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affront

[uh-fruhnt] / əˈfrʌnt /




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"Hot sauce is on the table of every cook shop and every restaurant. It's almost an affront if it's not there," he says.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

His happiness is an affront to their own chronic displeasure.

From Salon • May 19, 2026

The result has been an affront to many in Tree Town, as Ann Arbor is affectionately known, leaving many trees looking more like something out of a Dr. Seuss book.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Madrid rejected the demand, calling it an affront.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Two decades later, in Batson, the Supreme Court reversed course, a nod to the newly minted public consensus that explicit race discrimination is an affront to American values.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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