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And when he saw his grip slipping, he turned to the type of sheer hatred he otherwise claimed to abhor.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

This isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Briloff would say that markets abhor uncertainty, and less frequent reporting only adds more.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

By doing that, its critics are no better than the artless, ahistorical fascists they purport to abhor.

From Salon ● May 6, 2025

I abhor the rainbow stripe and would prefer something along the lines of a simple skull and crossbones.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

“Nature abhors a vacuum, and really, the only person who can speak for the committee is the chair,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

While Mrs. Bennet abhors glasses on women, Mary embraces them, the better to read her books with.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

During the conversation, Muir makes it clear he abhors crowded trades.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

Nature abhors a vacuum and markets aren’t all that keen on it either.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

Even today, children are taught “Nature abhors a vacuum,” while the teachers don’t really understand where that phrase came from.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The public both abhorred and adored the scandal.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

He was a political progressive who abhorred radicalism, an antimonopolist who recognized the inevitability of large corporations and chose to regulate rather than ban them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

In the midst of my pain of heart and frantic effort of principle, I abhorred myself.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He was a fighter for poor minorities, abhorring the gang violence that had taken over in his adopted home of Los Angeles and working for decades to help disadvantaged inner-city kids.

From Washington Times ● May 20, 2023

Kennedy sought liberal outcomes while abhorring instability and uncertainty.

From Slate ● May 27, 2017

Politically, he remained exceptionally conservative, abhorring social unrest and invariably supporting law and order.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

The libretto, by Mr. Morrison and John Cox, an opera director and Wilde scholar, is a high-minded affair, preaching tolerance and abhorring bigotry at every turn.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013

It ought to be the abhorring of all mankind, as it is of all other flesh; and the extensive circulation of your timely and powerful antidote, cannot fail of doing great good.

From A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation by Orin Fowler