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recoiling





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Americans are recoiling at rising restaurant and coffee prices and eating out less, making Starbucks’s turnaround more challenging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2025

We’ll see if voters can reward this one while recoiling.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

De Guzman, who also curated an art show called “Roots of Cool” about trees, noted that Los Angeles seems to actually shrink during the hotter months, as if recoiling from the sun.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025

What I'm suggesting is that our mass recoiling at Sara Ramirez's Che Diaz on "And Just Like That…" may be misdirected.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2023

Collectively recoiling from the native population of the Americas, Europeans learned how to become a new version of themselves.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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