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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Bradshaw remained largely out of the public eye after her brush with infamy.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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There’s a $5 Joel Bennett ball (career ERA: 8.53), and a $10 Anthony Young ball that tempts me for his infamy: poor Young once lost a record 27 decisions in a row for the New York Mets.Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 19 July 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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His incendiary rhymes, which boldly call out the atrocities carried out by the country’s dictatorial regime, have resulted in multiple arrests and extended stretches in prison over the last five years, for a sum total of 753 days.SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, in recent years, this designation was made in the cases of the Daesh atrocities against Yazidis, Christians and other religious minorities, the atrocities against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, and the atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar.Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Repellency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repellency. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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