How to Use aversion in a Sentence

aversion

noun

• I simply have this ingrained aversion to the sight of bloodshed.
• They regarded war with aversion.
• An aversion to definition is a great gift to an artist like Welch.
  — Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Strangely enough, though, babies do not seem to have a natural aversion to bad smells.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2021
• There are many people who refuse to implement as there is a risk aversion to learning from mistakes.
  — Dr. Denise Trudeau-Poskas, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
• And his wife, the daughter of immigrants from Hong Kong, also had an aversion to spicy food.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• Between my aversion to the permanence and not even having a worthwhile design in mind, the idea was always a moot point.
  — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2021
• There is throughout the book a bizarre aversion to the idea of men running errands: Women who ask their partners to lift so much as a finger to help them are trouble.
  — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2021
• To Manage Risk Many companies struggle to innovate because of risk aversion.
  — Topsie Vandenbosch, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• Even the way scientists and engineers talk about physical laws and physical constraints might be confining and perpetuate risk aversion.
  — Andrea Morris, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• They are perennially characterized as penny pinching cost cutters who have a genetic aversion to any form of IT spending.
  — Mark Settle, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• The aversion of the Duterte administration seemed to fade earlier this week, when one of Duterte’s lawyers issued an unusual warning to Beijing.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2021
• This aversion may even have to do with the name itself.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 13 Feb. 2024
• Deals are down, money is tight, and risk aversion is the order of the day.
  — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
• From Barack Obama to the man on the street, Chicagoans are known for their aversion to ketchup on hot dogs.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
• My first trimester came with a lot of nausea and food aversions.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
• Yet the country has such an aversion to even the slightest brush with guilt.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• Have an aversion to cilantro or don’t have sumac in your cupboard?
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 11 Feb. 2023
• What all his clients share is an extreme aversion to risk.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 3 May 2021
• Christopher Nolan may be known for his aversion to CGI.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2023
• The strangest thing about my aversion to horror is that at this point, the idea of a pair of glowing eyes in the dark isn't what's keeping me away.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 20 Oct. 2022
• Still, an aversion to those barbs has kept Stowers away from group hikes.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• This isn't the first time The Good Place alum has spoken out about her aversion to Lagerfeld's legacy.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2022
• This might reflect loss aversion, the researchers said.
  — The Arizona Republic, 4 Feb. 2024
• Casey posits that the roots of humanity's aversion run, well, deep.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
• There’s often a strong aversion to seeing and discussing shades of grey.
  — Ted Anthony, ajc, 8 Aug. 2021
• But, an aversion to opening up isn’t always a bad sign.
  — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
• That can look like a fear of texture, [or] different aversions to smells.
  — Rachel Wenzlaff, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• Clinton shares a story about Eric who moved to the west coast for work but had an aversion to water.
  — Jane Hanson, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• In two other signs of rising risk aversion, gold prices rose and the dollar strengthened.
  — Karen Langley and Rebecca Feng, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024