1
as in curse
a prayer that harm will come to someone
uttered an anathema before driving the would-be robber from the his shop
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as in enemy
something or someone that is hated
the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics is anathema to animal-rights activists
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Recent Examples of anathema
There was friction over H1-B work visas that Trump's core populists consider anathema but that his backers in the tech world depend on.
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Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
For many decades, the idea that Oklahoma is allowed to fund a religious school — much less that it is required to do so — was considered anathema to the Constitution.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 Jan. 2025
Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, and one of Trump’s main domestic priorities is to extend his 2017 tax cuts and embark on a deregulatory crusade.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
The whole concept is utterly confounding and completely anathema to the ethos of the show.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2025
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Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025
For many decades, the idea that Oklahoma is allowed to fund a religious school — much less that it is required to do so — was considered anathema to the Constitution.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 28 Jan. 2025
Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, and one of Trump’s main domestic priorities is to extend his 2017 tax cuts and embark on a deregulatory crusade.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
The whole concept is utterly confounding and completely anathema to the ethos of the show.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anathema
Noun
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Glamour is a gift and a curse as Venus and Neptune align.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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Google / Ars Technica A cathartic curse eliminates the AI Overview in the results.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
31 Jan. 2025
Noun
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This go round, audiences saw them being buried alive, interrogated by the enemy for hours, running mercilessly, and jumping off a bridge.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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The Trump administration’s version of justice rewards his friends and excludes his enemies.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Half said antisemitism is taken less seriously than other forms of hate and bigotry, according to the report.—
Katie Futterman Las Vegas Review-Journal (TNS),
arkansasonline.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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The promise of two people who will most assuredly shift from hate to love to forever is a draw few can resist.—
Denise Williams,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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We are told that Saudi Arabia still conditions peace with Israel on the creation of one, and voices across the West might leave a listener thinking that anything else would be a historical abomination.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Harris painted Trump as a criminal, a moral abomination, a would-be dictator whose dangerous rhetoric should disqualify him from office.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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During Donald Trump's first four years in office, Kennedy Center officials were forced to walk a public tightrope between the tradition of the president attending the ceremony and the open antipathy toward Trump from multiple honorees.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Dec. 2024
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During President-elect Donald Trump's first four years in office, Kennedy Center officials were forced to walk a public tightrope between the tradition of the president attending the ceremony and the open antipathy toward Trump from multiple honorees.—
ASHRAF KHALIL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
9 Dec. 2024
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One point that has been made is that President Trump, like President Reagan before him, has an abhorrence of nuclear weapons and would like to pursue a policy of denuclearization.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
6 Feb. 2025
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What distinguishes the extreme far-left from the far-right, however, is an abhorrence for meaningless violence, death and terrorism — at least against people, anti-fascists and experts on the movement told USA TODAY.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
5 Jan. 2025
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The person with a phobia does not want to be terrified of spiders.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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People who seek treatment usually have a debilitating phobia.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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Much of Trump’s detestation of the Hollywood establishment is of course performative, one more nemesis to cast in his Sorkinian screenplay.—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Between the lines: Many undecideds are painfully trying to balance their sense of obligation with their detestation for Trump, as USA Today first detailed on Thursday.—
Erin Doherty,
Axios,
14 Dec. 2024
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“Anathema.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anathema. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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