aversion
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Voters’ aversion to cross-category pollination has limited animated movies since the academy created the animated feature category in 2001.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Diners, meanwhile, are already expressing an aversion to the whole thing.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Winterich says sometimes we hold on to things we’re not currently using because of waste aversion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
In some cases, image generators propagate patterns with excessive regularity, triggering trypophobia, a strong aversion to clusters of bumps or holes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
And that's why my parents were convinced that it was my proclivity for sweets and aversion to vegetables that caused my acne.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
To pay my respect, I ate not only for myself but my whole family, whose allergies and aversions led them to abstain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In Olivia’s case, her restrictive eating was driven primarily by sensory aversions.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2025
Pregnancy is often a time for food aversions and exhaustion, but for Keatley the opposite has been true.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
"I really regret the rice isn't consumed due to safety rumours, but I also understand it's hard to completely refute aversions."
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
I will uncover and invoke inclinations and aversions.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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