nauseate
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“Real Time with Bill Maher” acts as a sounding board for its admittedly clever host, who can often amuse, enlighten and nauseate in the same string of sentences.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2019
The sight of Stanton in pinstripes will delight and nauseate many.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2017
As team doctors administered triage, the broadcast danced between vantage points, carefully avoiding any shots that would further nauseate viewers.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2017
The prerelease build of Obduction I tried in the Oculus Rift didn’t nauseate me, although it suffered from the occasional frame rate drop — one of the issues Cyan is still ironing out.
From The Verge ● Sep. 10, 2016
He was afraid that it might nauseate him and he would vomit and lose his strength.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
He is, in other words, an almost nauseatingly successful prospect in a sport that more often nauseates once-successful prospects for years before they find their way.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023
That, obviously, nauseates moderates, who’d prefer something that’s either half of that or lower.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2021
“But its reality has become so overwhelming that it kind of nauseates me,” she said.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2018
McKay’s book, Du Bois wrote, “for the most part nauseates me, and after the dirtier parts of its filth I feel distinctly like taking a bath.”
From New York Times ● May 3, 2015
He rests a hand on my shoulder, patting it affectionately, and his touch nauseates me.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
By the end, both of us felt slightly nauseated, though not by the food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
People who were nauseated by the drugs were more likely to report increased food waste.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024
The effect can be vertiginous—so the way people avoid being nauseated is by trying to ignore the dissonance.
From Salon ● May 29, 2024
The sounds and lights were an assault—he went home nauseated, with a pounding head.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2024
Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
A cloud of smoke hung over the town of Ille-sur-Tet, where residents described the nauseating smell of burning.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Even a day later, contemplating this willfully nauseating work carries much the same sensation as having ingested a plate of bad clams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
It was infested with rats and cockroaches, and smelt "nauseating".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
It’s not enough to save the aesthetic of the entire film, though, which is somehow both gray and nauseating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026
I know I’m prompting him, playing up to him, drawing him out, and I dislike myself for it, it’s nauseating, in fact.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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