aversion
Example Sentences
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“He has such an aversion to being liked,” David Thomson wrote, in a 1983 issue of Film Comment, about Shepard’s screen presence.
Europe’s other military power, there is widespread aversion to conscription, which ended in 1960.
For example, “loss aversion” makes us hyper-sensitive to losing money and more likely to buy something like trip protection.
From Seattle Times
Germany’s decades-old aversion to borrowing led it to adopt a constitutional “debt brake” in 2009 that requires a nearly balanced national budget.
From New York Times
Perhaps, on a subconscious level, this is why many of the scientists contacted by Salon about this article expressed such a deep aversion to the movie that they refused to even rewatch it.
From Salon
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