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Some musicians have said they detest AI music, but casual listeners may not care how a track is made if they find it catchy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

She wants revenge without dwelling on its cause or her trauma — a word Hester would surely detest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2025

So can a bridge be built between those who detest the love locks, and those who want them to stay in Bakewell?

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024

Not only do the Fremen detest colonizers mining their planet for spice and often attack them, the mining operation is also a dangerous activity in and of itself.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

“But no one will care if you go; you know we all detest Lady Isobel, don’t you?”

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

She said she detests the shift toward app and kiosk ordering at locations in her area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Mensah is a maternal figure who insists that Murderbot show its human face, although the cyborg detests eye contact.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025

Judging from his previous term in office, we can be sure that every one of the people around him knows how he detests being disagreed with.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025

When he pens an exploitative work, like another recent bestseller he detests, he is astonished to get a lucrative publishing deal and a movie offer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

“The only person that made any sense in the dream was Professor Tupper. I mean he was the only person that was there that I know really detests me.”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

A boisterous protest greeted fans arriving at SoFi stadium in Los Angeles, with demonstrators waving the pre-revolutionary flag detested by the leaders of the Islamic republic.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

Both parties found voters on the doorsteps who disliked the government and detested the prime minister.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

The process has long been detested by physicians and patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The U.S. could soon have the “universally detested Temu Greyhound of the Skies.”

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

She detested housework, in part because it had no end in the Simdars household and in part because it held her under the bell jar of her mother’s watchful eye.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

There’s messaging about neighbors with different political views co-existing amicably – or, if not that, detesting each other for reasons other than politics.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025

Also detesting the invasion is Maria Yumasheva, the 19-year-old daughter of Russian real estate developer Valentin Yumashev and his wife Tatyana Borisovna.

From Fox News ● Mar. 5, 2022

The former Liga MX star wasn’t shy about detesting powerhouse Tigres UANL.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021

A reader called me out on it, saying that there’s a difference between disagreeing with a position and detesting a person.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2021

Many of the prominent nobles, some even of royal blood, detesting the haughty prime minister, espoused the Parliamentary cause.

From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott