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aversive

[uh-vur-siv, -ziv] / əˈvɜr sɪv, -zɪv /






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Some applications of Colorado’s prohibition “may address conduct—such as aversive physical interventions,” Justice Gorsuch says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

If you stumble during a presentation, you might feel stressed the next time you have to present because your brain associates your next presentation with that one poor and aversive experience.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2024

The most commonly used aversive training methods were moving the dog or shouting at them.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

As this finding would indicate, many animals, including humans, find the taste of ammonium chloride to be aversive — but as the popularity of salmiak would indicate, that’s not universally the case.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023

But she only bowed slightly to him, with a sidelong, aversive glance, and walked out of the room with a slow, rigid pace, like one that controls a tendency to giddiness.

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean




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