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aversive

[uh-vur-siv, -ziv] / əˈvɜr sɪv, -zɪv /






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Mr. Bailey offers practical techniques for overcoming the aversive elements of our goals, which are most likely to lead to procrastination.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 2026

Only 18% of owners who took part in the survey used no aversive training methods or aids.

From BBC Jan. 22, 2024

To discover compounds that effectively repel insect pests, it is important to focus on key molecules associated with sensory, particularly aversive, responses.

From Science Daily Dec. 22, 2023

As this finding would indicate, many animals, including humans, find the taste of ammonium chloride to be aversive — but as the popularity of salmiak would indicate, that’s not universally the case.

From Salon Oct. 30, 2023

But she only bowed slightly to him, with a sidelong, aversive glance, and walked out of the room with a slow, rigid pace, like one that controls a tendency to giddiness.

From Indian Summer by William Dean Howells




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