phobia
Example Sentences
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Like, he has a severe phobia of vomit.
From Literature
It is human nature to project our phobias, prejudices and obsessions onto what is simply a biological contest between our immune system and the amoral pathogens trying to replicate themselves within us.
One of my prompts on the app detailed my phobia of snails in detail.
From Los Angeles Times
In “Doc Martin,” Clunes played a brilliant London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and becomes a general practitioner in the Cornwall fishing village where he spent summers as a child.
From Los Angeles Times
Hope Jezzard's phobia of hospitals was so intense that it seemed inconceivable she would ever work in one.
From BBC
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