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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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Pointing to her political rise in San Francisco, Trump’s camp has tried to paint her as a radical leftist from California, hoping to make her anathema to moderate voters.
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Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024
Both the annexation measure and the rural boundary measure — which was placed on the November ballot late last month — are anathema to developers, who are expected to fund a vigorous campaign against them.
—Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
Publicity and self-promotion were anathema to this most private of authors, who died in 1989.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Shapiro supports school vouchers — public money to help students attend private schools — which is anathema to teachers unions.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
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Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024
Both the annexation measure and the rural boundary measure — which was placed on the November ballot late last month — are anathema to developers, who are expected to fund a vigorous campaign against them.
—Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
Publicity and self-promotion were anathema to this most private of authors, who died in 1989.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Shapiro supports school vouchers — public money to help students attend private schools — which is anathema to teachers unions.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
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Regardless of whether one sees it as a triumph or a curse, there is no reason to expect that low fertility will be reversed in any major way.Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
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Just one episode after breaking her family’s curse, Alice lies dead on the ground, and the witches—and especially Teen—are not happy.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 6 Nov. 2024
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Loos uses a specific enemy, the Aeshi Nero, as a prime example of what the team is going for.Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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But even so, my mother’s love for me outpaced all modes of hate.Essence, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
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The lack of hate symbols comes as a relief to us, but the gesture seems ominous.Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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McDonald's has introduced the Chicken Big Mac, and just saying it out loud sounds like an abomination of nature.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
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Though some will argue that what's known as Hawaiian Pizza is an abomination.Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
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Less frequently observed, at least in my anecdotal observations, are would-be Kamala Harris voters requiring that extra push—largely because their antipathy to Trump is already such a decisive motivational driver.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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In fact, Democratic antipathy has turned many lifelong Democrats who work in crypto into Trump supporters, since the Biden administration has put their livelihoods at risk and treated these entrepreneurs as criminals.Laura Shin, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
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The ambivalence of André and his parents was culturally unexceptional, but Simone’s abhorrence wasn’t.Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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To assume that liberalism is the only system that can justify or explain an abhorrence of bigotry is to ignore a wealth of moral traditions that are at least equally formative.Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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What the current vanguard of intensive parenting appears to reflect is a deepening phobia of diminishing returns.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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In addition to needle phobia, he’s identified several hurdles that stop people from injecting epinephrine sooner.Natallie Rocha, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
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One of the most memorable chapters epitomizes her detestation for the ultra-wealthy and pompous intellectuals who rushed to rationalize her work.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
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Media coverage oscillated wildly between sycophantic applause and puritanical scrutiny - celebrities made to traipse an ephemeral, razor thin line between public adoration and detestation.Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 4 Aug. 2023
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“Anathema.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anathema. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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