dislike
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If you dislike or even detest this film, I don’t seek to negate your feelings.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
He appears to sincerely dislike the idea that his candidacy should be a story about his identity at all.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“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
One thing that didn’t change was Enoch’s dislike for his name, especially as other kids continued to tease him about it.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
“Whether or not someone dislikes rankings, one has to acknowledge that there are huge differences in how universities educate students,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
She dislikes brunch and instead prefers having lunch by herself at the bar of a restaurant, where she can chat with the bartender and eavesdrop on others’ conversations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"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
For someone who actively dislikes bodily fluids, I throw up quite a lot.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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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
"This is intimidating, even for a seasoned professional. I ultimately got the job, but even though I won I disliked the process," says Alcruz.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
He developed a surprising reputation as an interpreter of Rachmaninoff and other romantics disliked by modernists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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In 1995, Keith starred in Next Of Kin as Maggie Prentice, a grandmother who made no secret of disliking her orphaned grandchildren when taking them in after the death of her estranged son.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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
Perhaps the baseball karma gods took a disliking to Kepler’s heads-up play because Seattle reeled off four runs in the top of the ninth inning as the Twins imploded.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
She explained in a steely tone that she had wanted to remain anonymous, disliking publicity after the circumstances of her husband’s death.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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