as in repulsiveness
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Recent Examples of repellency
In addition to evaluating performance and how effectively water was removed from the car’s shield, factors like rain repellency, ease of installation, noise and price were considered.
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Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2023
For example, the NEMO Dagger OSMO™ Lightweight Backpacking Tent is made of poly-nylon ripstop fabric and has excellent water repellency, which means it won’t be worn down by the elements as easily.
—Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
Motivated to increase the sustainability factor even further, The North Face also created a new PFC-free DWR treatment that maintains 80 percent of its water repellency after 80 wash cycles (and requires no consumer applications of water-polluting retreatment).
—Outside Online, 8 Jan. 2019
The repellency lasts for up to 10 washes.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
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Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2023
For example, the NEMO Dagger OSMO™ Lightweight Backpacking Tent is made of poly-nylon ripstop fabric and has excellent water repellency, which means it won’t be worn down by the elements as easily.
—Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
Motivated to increase the sustainability factor even further, The North Face also created a new PFC-free DWR treatment that maintains 80 percent of its water repellency after 80 wash cycles (and requires no consumer applications of water-polluting retreatment).
—Outside Online, 8 Jan. 2019
The repellency lasts for up to 10 washes.
—Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for repellency
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In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024
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The series gets darker and more grotesque as the season progresses, and our uncomfortable laughter eventually fades into a grimace of repugnance.Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 July 2023
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Listen to this article PARIS — After a day that will live in infamy to the people of Serbia, a handful of old friends talked deep into the night.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 8 Dec. 2024
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Over 80 years later, Dec. 7, 1941 is a date that still lives in infamy.James Powel, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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And that’s just the unpleasantness of chewing on leathery supermarket steaks, because accidentally tucking into raw chicken is more serious.Sal Vaglica, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
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Retrograde Mercury picks a fight with Uranus, ruler of weirdness, provoking an eruption of unexpected unpleasantness in your life, and then the Sun partners up with Mercury in a temporary flare of stubborn self-delusion.Jennifer Culp, Them, 9 Aug. 2024
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Among Assad’s worst atrocities was the 2013 sarin gas attack in the city of Ghouta, which killed more than 1,400 people and was labeled a war crime by the then-UN secretary general.Rob Picheta, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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In 2014, Daesh attacked Sinjar, Iraq, inflicting widespread atrocities on the Yazidi community.Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Repellency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repellency. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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