abhor
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“I have experienced discrimination, which I abhor when directed to me or to anyone else,” said DeJute, who is gay.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
The front-runner, 60-year-old BNP chairman Tarique Rahman, represents the dynastic politics that many educated Bangladeshis abhor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Briloff would say that markets abhor uncertainty, and less frequent reporting only adds more.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
“I disagree with or even abhor things that Nick Fuentes says, but canceling him isn’t the answer either.”
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 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
Martin abhors a perfect soul, and loves a human heart in conflict with itself and the world.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026
During the conversation, Muir makes it clear he abhors crowded trades.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
That, however, would require something Generation Z abhors: boredom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Nature abhors a vacuum and markets aren’t all that keen on it either.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
But Pascal’s simple experiment demolished Aristotle’s assertion that nature abhors a vacuum.
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
Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
Senators, Sandvine later announced that it would no longer work with Belarus, saying that it abhorred “the use of technology to suppress the free flow of information resulting in human rights violations.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
While I abhorred the notion of British imperialism, I never rejected the trappings of British style and manners.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
All had the backbone to join multiple Republicans in sharply abhorring the scandal.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 21, 2020
Despite abhorring analytics, Barkley’s adventures in mathematics have routinely made for amazing television.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
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
We who abide by the laws are surely justified in shunning, in abhorring, those who deliberately break them.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
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