aversion
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The U.S. dollar was more or less flat against rivals as the dovish position of the Federal Reserve was balanced by a wave of risk aversion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Voters’ aversion to cross-category pollination has limited animated movies since the academy created the animated feature category in 2001.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Winterich says sometimes we hold on to things we’re not currently using because of waste aversion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Add in the public’s aversion to barring businesses from doing anything, along with the fond feelings many Americans have for the words “private” and “equity,” and it’s easy to feel hopeless.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Mom’s family did not share her aversion to coal mining.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
To pay my respect, I ate not only for myself but my whole family, whose allergies and aversions led them to abstain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
He noted that, like him, she had trouble socializing and experienced sensory aversions.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2024
Pregnancy is often a time for food aversions and exhaustion, but for Keatley the opposite has been true.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
"I really regret the rice isn't consumed due to safety rumours, but I also understand it's hard to completely refute aversions."
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
Emma felt this sentence would give people “an opening to say, however unjustly, that he considered all spiritual beliefs no higher than hereditary aversions or likings, such as the fear of monkeys towards snakes.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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