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Co-signers include the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly advocacy and research group in Washington that tends to despise Big Tech, and the Writer’s Guild.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

He didn’t have much reason to despise Cornyn, beyond a stray comment here or there.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026

But it has also triggered an unexpected wave of nostalgia, with some Delhi residents expressing affection for a place they often claimed to despise.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

“It’s impossible. . . . If I do that, my kids, my grandkids would despise me. My wife will despise me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

May 25—So this is how a person can come to despise himself—knowing he’s doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Clough, a brilliant egomaniac who loves beautiful soccer, despises the successes achieved by the “big, hard, dirty, old men” who played under Don Revie, his predecessor and nemesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

There are few things Friedman despises more than a deadline trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

“I am thrilled about that. That makes me qualified to be homeland security secretary and senior adviser to the president,” referring to Noem and Stephen Miller, whom Tillis also despises.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026

They also report that he's boxed his lawyers into an "absolutist" defense, to appease a client "who despises weakness and is allergic to anything but praise from the people around him."

From Salon ● May 13, 2024

Which gives rise to the thought that maybe he’s hiding in the last place we’d expect; the place he despises more than cauliflower and piano lessons combined—Meadow Creek Elementary School.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

That team became the lordly Yankees, an “aesthetically evil” and “universally despised dynasty” that, nonetheless, Mr. Gittlitz grudgingly admits, has a lot of working-class fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Bogle almost certainly would’ve despised cryptocurrency ETFs as speculative instruments that produce no cash flow.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Part of Lord Mandelson's mystique - and one of the reasons why he is despised by some in the Labour movement - is his love of political intrigue, gossip and plots.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026

I would fight for the doorstep rather than give it up, but I knew that my hunger and my fear were making me into another person altogether, a greedy and coldhearted person I despised.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

He is described as a man who had “poked his chin up sideways, carrying his nose with that aforesaid appearance of ‘sniff,’ as though despising an egg which he knew he could not digest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

"It's astonishing how people can put so much vitriol and energy into despising someone. It's extraordinarily damaging," she says of the most bitter sibling rivalry.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2024

His book was so vivid and graphic that President Theodore Roosevelt, despite personally despising Sinclair, felt obligated to investigate the matter.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021

I should have been flattered that she cared, but I hated the feeling of every student in the classroom looking at me, despising me.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson