repulsive
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Under those conditions, it generates a repulsive force that works against gravitational collapse.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
"What is left is an inanimate object. Like all other objects, some people have no interest in this, some people think it's repulsive, but other people like them and they collect them."
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
It’s taboo because we make it so, which means that the legitimately taboo looks all the more repulsive by comparison.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Before gaining notoriety with his Fox show, he posted on the website Slate about Trump in 1999, referring to him as “the single most repulsive person on the planet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model, the repulsive effect of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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