as in revulsion
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Noun
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It is also being met with outsize revulsion by many voters.—
Karla Adam,
Washington Post,
26 June 2024 -
The collective and immediate show of opprobrium and moral revulsion by Western governments, corporations, and cultural bodies meted out wide-reaching and consequential stigmatization.—
Alexander Cooley,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Oct. 2022
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Western governments and much of the world recoil at the idea of a jihadist Syria.—
Paul du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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This recoil was detected by watching for a change in how light scattered off the silica, which allowed the physicists to identify the exact moment a nucleus decayed.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
25 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Trump has previously tried to remove the U.S. from the organization, issuing a notice of withdrawal in 2020.—
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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Despite the removal of troops from Afghanistan, something that had been promised by successive presidents before him, by voters for errors in the withdrawal, which included the deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers.—
Theo Burman,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Disengagement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disengagement. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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