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• Why was Ryan so averse to spending more time with the tribe?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
• The $4 wine pours may be gone, but Olivecrona’s not averse to a good deal.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• Texas is even more averse to the arc, averaging 12.2 3s per game.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2023
• Voss has been averse to talking with reporters and couldn’t be reached for comment.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
• But this is Janet Jackson, a rare celebrity who is averse to over sharing.
  — Gloria Alamrew, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2022
• For those averse to math, that's 32 minutes shorter (about 4 percent).
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
• Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, has been averse to the app’s teaming up with or promoting news accounts.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Nadya Tolokonnikova has long been averse to the idea of national borders.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
• Why is music’s biggest night so averse to giving Black women their due?
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2023
• Swift, though not averse to jeans and a tank on a summer day, for example, is usually one to look Dressed to Impress at all times.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2023
• That’s not to suggest that the show, which recently ended its third season, is averse to over-the-top parody.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• But to your point, Geoffrey, there are some lenders which were fairly averse to taking merchant risks.
  — Jason Kaminsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• At first, Chad was averse to opening up about that part of the band’s history in the movie, but bandmate Ryan Peake convinced him otherwise.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
• And then there was another one that had no flavor, just in case people were averse to that flavor profile.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
• And more generally, why is Emily so averse to the prospect of just … meeting a hot person … and dating them … in a normal way?
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• This makes regular lenders more averse to lending to early-stage startups, which, in turn, hampers the startup’s growth.
  — William Mullane, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2024
• Beck isn’t averse to helping dirty industries, like fossil fuels, clean up their act.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2023
• That has created a culture averse to taking price risk and with a low tolerance for failure.
  — Devika Krishna Kumar, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2023
• Mary Anne’s brother, Isaac, apparently as averse to change as his father, succeeded him in the same job.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Singhal is far from alone among Floridians who are averse to Sullivan.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
• Well, according to the celebrity rumor mill, Taylor Swift wasn't averse to meeting Travis Kelce after all.
  — Glamour, 16 Sep. 2023
• That’s already challenging enough, made moreso by the fact GM Jerry Dipoto isn’t averse to trading away key pieces even if the club is in contention.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• For those not averse to heat and humidity, summer brings a different tempo to Japan.
  — Danielle Demetriou, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2023
• Was this approach the reflection of a man intrinsically averse to risk?
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Even that less draconian approach seemed overly risk averse to Mr. Gu.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2022
• It has long been known that the former president was averse to sending emails and texts, and his son Donald Trump Jr. put that on the record during his interview with the committee.
  — Stephanie Lai, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Doing so puts him at odds with a historical profession averse to that pursuit.
  — Daniel J. Samet, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
• Next, the same batch of exhibits made public by the DOJ reveals that Apple wasn't entirely averse to gleaning some insight into their customers' search habits.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2023
• The city government, Stallings said, can be averse to confronting its toughest challenges, in part because doing so would work against Branson’s squeaky-clean image.
  — Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• Indie filmmaker Song is averse to the pleasures of emotive storytelling.
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024