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“I’m naturally risk averse so it was a difficult decision for me,” Sherman said about the fourth-down gamble.

When I read up on the Bolton players, they all seemed like big, strong boys and were not averse to chucking their weight around.

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Langill is averse to displays loaded up with several baseballs, bats, caps and jerseys.

The statesman, who was famously averse to the idea of a cult of personality built around him, had stated in his will that he wanted his house to be demolished either after his death or after his daughter moved out of the home.

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While the Supreme Court will likely insist on its prerogative to apply its newly minted immunity doctrine to the evidence, some of Smith’s arguments turn on factual and contextual claims — for example, that Pence and Trump were dining as candidates rather than as officials — that the court is normally averse to reviewing.

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