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hate

[hayt] / heɪt /




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“Carrie Ann certainly didn’t deserve to get caught in the middle of my bad judgment, and I hate that she was.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

“The old dictum that ‘markets hate uncertainty’ is forever true, and there is more than enough uncertainty around AI for many bucketloads of investor discontent,” Colas wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

A lot of people hate jet skis, to say nothing of jet skiers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"We will take a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime and other offending," said senior Met officer Carl Galvin.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

I told him that I hate avocados but like guacamole, and he told me that he has dyseidetic dyslexia.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

She says she hates judging people with "really limited information and just a couple of pictures" because she doesn't feel she can "really fully commit" with so little to go on.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“I was talking to a Republican consultant who ran one of the big super PACs and he, like, hates all of their media consultants,” Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, told me.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Wall Street normally hates price cuts, but some analysts didn’t mind the ones announced by Target on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

No, he hates me because I became more famous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

That seems as impossible as a Vampire who hates blood.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

I thought of my father, who hated every boat he ever owned—a feeling that went both ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

I’m Iranian American, and in this world today, I’m from two of the most hated countries in the world — Iran and America — but I’m extremely loved as a person.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Her mother, Gemma, says Audrina has always hated hospital food and is determined to bring about change.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Growing up, I was one of those reflexively contrarian teenagers who hated anything popular and found value in almost anything obscure, independent or weird.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

They both remembered how much their mother had hated Anastasia's gerbils.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

He stood there and watched as the Rays celebration raged on, reflecting on another failed season and, he said, “just hating every single moment of it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Glad to hear the new San Diego Padres owner is a longtime Yankees fan, therefore hating the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Among all the discourse sparked by a “No Influencers” sign in a Nantucket store, one question cuts through: “Does hating influencers mean hating women?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

"When you haven't written for a long time, you start being extremely self-critical. So I was hating everything I was coming out with," she said.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

Therefore she was so indignant after the dream that instead of hating him, she felt an irresistible urge to see him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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