aversion
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Most of the people who had electric shock aversion therapy were men.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
A break below technical support alongside rising BoJ rate expectations could signal growing risk aversion across global markets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
It was far from perfect, and I did have to overcome my aversion to seeing so many naked, hairy feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She calls the aversion to scenario-planning “magical thinking.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
We can think of it as a dedicated mutual aversion to their own kind, a little as if the world were densely populated by anchorites and misanthropes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
To pay my respect, I ate not only for myself but my whole family, whose allergies and aversions led them to abstain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In Olivia’s case, her restrictive eating was driven primarily by sensory aversions.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2025
Pregnancy is often a time for food aversions and exhaustion, but for Keatley the opposite has been true.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
"I really regret the rice isn't consumed due to safety rumours, but I also understand it's hard to completely refute aversions."
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
I will uncover and invoke inclinations and aversions.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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