object (to)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for object (to)
Verb
  • About 300 demonstrators protested at a Tesla dealership in New York City on Saturday.
    Rodrique Ngowi and Jonathan J. Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Politicians historically have used their State of the Union plus-ones to promote or protest federal policies.
    Jessica Boehm, Axios, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Developers themselves have complained that their companies are not doing enough to weed out harassment online.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2025
  • For nothing is more European, at least in today’s Europe, than being bullied by Russia while complaining about the United States.
    Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Most of the speakers at Tuesday’s meeting scorned a study by Raleigh’s Administrative Office of the Courts on workloads and staffing needs.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Is his tendency to scorn sentimentality on sight a put-on or a character flaw?
    Rhoda Feng, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Never the favorite of his party's professional advisers, Merz was twice rejected as Merkel's successor as party leader, in 2018 and 2021, before his doggedness won out in 2022.
    Thomas Escritt, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025
  • When this innate drive for self-expansion is unfulfilled within the current relationship, individuals may seek it elsewhere—including through infidelity. Cheating, in this case, isn’t necessarily about rejecting a relationship but about reclaiming a lost sense of self.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The industry disliked the wage increase but loathed the challenge to the franchise system and responded with a referendum to overturn the law.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • So many people love him and so many people really dislike him.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis may further help the Trump administration dismantle diversity policies that, by favoring some categories of employees, disfavor others.
    Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • For Darwin, adaptations were the result of mutations leading to trait variation among individuals in a population, which were then filtered through conditions in a local environment, favoring certain variants and disfavoring others.
    Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Hackman was praised for his acting but the movie was fiercely criticized for appearing to whitewash history and marginalize Black characters.
    Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Some party leaders have been criticized for using Nazi slogans and downplaying the Holocaust.
    Obed Manuel, NPR, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Object (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/object%20%28to%29. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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