anathema
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"The path to rebuilding the right can only happen with the broadest possible spirit of unity, without exclusion and without anathema," he writes.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
Commercials were anathema to Hastings, but Netflix has now built an ad business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
“Self-consciousness and judgment—whether from yourself or other people—are anathema to flow, as is any form of distraction,” she writes.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
An inherent suspicion of good writing is probably anathema to producing good writing.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
All forms of obvious vulgarity were anathema to Keith.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011
The Welles-Houseman partnership ended badly, with Welles hurling blazing Sterno heaters at Producer Houseman and howling anathemas at him in that voice of Zeus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She utters her prophecies and anathemas as if the blood of Cassandra were coursing through her veins.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The American Medical Association, which in the past has pronounced anathemas on anything sounding like medical price control, is also giving support to the Administration's plan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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All the jests at its expense, all the anathemas that are heaped upon it, are as revolting to me as so many acts of ingratitude, I might say as so many absurdities.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
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