object (to)

verb

Definition of object (to)next
1
as in to pooh

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2
as in to quarrel (with)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for object (to)
  1. protest
  2. complain
  3. scorn
  4. reject
  5. dislike
  6. disfavor
  7. criticize
Verb
  • Several aldermen protested the move, and a number of angry residents shouted their opposition to the meeting’s abrupt end.
    Jim Talamonti | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Dec. 2024
  • By Tuesday morning, just hours after prosecutors filed murder charges against former Towson resident and Gilman School valedictorian Luigi Nicholas Mangione, 26, thousands of Baltimore commuters were greeted along southbound Interstate 83 by a handmade banner that protested U.S. health care policy.
    Riley Gutiérrez McDermid, Baltimore Sun, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of protest
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  • Girding for battle at USC Pay is at the center of union organizing at USC, where non-tenure track professors complain of semester-to-semester contracts with little job security, minimal or nonexistent raises and moves by the university to cut benefits.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • If corporate leaders complain about these directives’ effects on their bottom lines, Trump’s team could force CISA to scale back its use of this authority.
    Eric Geller, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of complain
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  • Republicans and a potential Democratic primary rivals for Hochul quickly scorned the plan as a political gimmick and a weak solution to a big problem.
    Chris McKenna, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Even high-ranking German politicians have scorned the Senate’s plan.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of scorn
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  • Government shutdown:Donald Trump rejects bipartisan plan to avoid a government shutdown, sets up debt ceiling battle When is the government shutdown deadline?
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Ultimately, Republicans rejected Trump’s demand to eliminate the debt limit completely.
    David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of reject
Verb
  • Marte dislikes being used as a DH, preferring to play the field, but came around to doing it when the team needed him to.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Many workers dread their annual performance reviews—but one company’s management team dislikes them just as much as their employees.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of dislike
Verb
  • There is no clarifying language on what sort of action would constitute disfavoring or discouraging use of these vouchers.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Even if some incoming appointees might disfavor certain forms of biogas, targeting those forms would require Congress to act, because the IRA put them into section 48.
    Marie Sapirie, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of disfavor
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  • Mangione was found with a three-page handwritten manifesto criticizing the U.S. healthcare system.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Some civil rights advocates sharply criticized Trump’s choice.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of criticize
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“Object (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/object%20%28to%29. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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