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dislike

[dis-lahyk] / dɪsˈlaɪk /




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“Given the Fed Chair’s dislike of forward guidance, it is possible, even if unlikely, that investors get wrong-footed this time,” Morrison says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

When it came to film however, "I don't dislike it at all," he added.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

And because markets dislike uncertainty more than bad news, investors start pricing in the risk of further unexpected rule changes from the government.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

"And for his opponents, it is a further reason to dislike him."

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

“But sometimes I wish Masvita would do something bad. It would feel so good to have a reason to dislike her!”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

"The challenge goes way beyond just putting AI into a robot," said Lian Jye Su from technology research group Omdia, who dislikes the term "physical AI" for downplaying the complexity of the hardware solutions needed.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

James Piper, co-host of the Talking Rubbish podcast, co-owner of Ecosurety, said he dislikes BuzzBallz because of how difficult they are to recycle.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Maybe he just really dislikes the entire program and wasn’t targeting Haitians in particular.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

But the machinery he dislikes was built in 1999, when the Fed first began signaling a hike before it moved because it didn’t want to catch markets off guard.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

In the first example, Basil dislikes shorts on the woman.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

A disliked corner of the stock market really isn’t as bad as it seems, according to StoneX.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

The 30-year-old told AFP in Venice she disliked fame and celebrity, but Gyllenhaal tipped her for even greater success.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

She’s won praise for removing a widely disliked Xbox AI assistant and making it easier for people who own games on discs to get digital copies.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Many of the offers centered on capitalizing on their family names and pigeonholing them into commercial pop or hip-hop, which they tried and ultimately disliked.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

I also learned to bargain with Laertes, who disliked all study.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Yet she often avoids office collections on principle, not personality, disliking how impersonal they can feel.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

When the bubble is big enough, it shifts the behavior of the market as a whole from disliking capital expenditure, and hating speculative capital spending in particular, to loving it.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 1, 2025

Some readers confessed to never having seen the film whose soundtrack they love; others even reported disliking it.

From New York Times May 26, 2024

They met anyway, and became very close over the years, with Russell — notorious for disliking autographs — even signing a Celtics jersey for Abdul-Jabbar a few years ago.

From Seattle Times Feb. 19, 2023

There was never any question of my disliking Mr. Freeman, I simply didn’t understand him either.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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