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as in curse
a prayer that harm will come to someone
uttered an anathema before driving the would-be robber from the his shop
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as in enemy
something or someone that is hated
the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics is anathema to animal-rights activists
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Recent Examples of anathema
Trump is an unabashed authoritarian, and authoritarianism is anathema to liberty.
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Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
These things were totally anathema to what my parents’ home country had long represented for me.
—Shirley Nwangwa, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2024
The result is an immersive portrait that celebrates solidarity while acknowledging the difficult decisions and internal conflicts that make any collective action possible—especially when up against a corporate goliath in a post-Reagan era when worker organizations have become political anathema.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
Pointing to her political rise in San Francisco, Trump’s camp has tried to paint her as a radical leftist from California, hoping to make her anathema to moderate voters.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024
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Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
These things were totally anathema to what my parents’ home country had long represented for me.
—Shirley Nwangwa, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2024
The result is an immersive portrait that celebrates solidarity while acknowledging the difficult decisions and internal conflicts that make any collective action possible—especially when up against a corporate goliath in a post-Reagan era when worker organizations have become political anathema.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2024
Pointing to her political rise in San Francisco, Trump’s camp has tried to paint her as a radical leftist from California, hoping to make her anathema to moderate voters.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anathema
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The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the affable Williams and Knight — whose The Real Brady Bros podcast relives every episode — to talk Brady Bunch auditions, Ann B. Davis’ comic timing and those pesky Hawaiian curses.Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
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Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to one hundred years of solitude.Dana Feldman, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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The scarcity of essentials means players have to weigh up the risk and reward of every engagement with an enemy.Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Those test-driving the plane will be provided with a mixed-reality headset allowing a 360-degree view flying in-formation while trying to defeat an enemy target.Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2024
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If open carry is passed, hate groups could exploit the law to display their guns in a public show of force, said state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, D-Orlando.Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
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That element doesn’t come from a single source, however, but from all the core characters chiming in on the main duo’s love/hate bromance.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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In the wake of this moral abomination, the Senate should pass it and President Biden should sign it as one of his last acts in office.The Editors, National Review, 21 Nov. 2024
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There’s the obvious question of whether or not including sugar is an abomination, but that’s never the end of the debate.Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2024
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At a news conference recently, Powell, the Fed chief, acknowledged public antipathy about lingering inflation and its potential influence at the polls.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
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Trump's antipathy toward Iran has grown, with accusations of Iranian interference in his campaign and fears of retaliation.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
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The ambivalence of André and his parents was culturally unexceptional, but Simone’s abhorrence wasn’t.Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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To assume that liberalism is the only system that can justify or explain an abhorrence of bigotry is to ignore a wealth of moral traditions that are at least equally formative.Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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Black Sheep stars Nathan Meister as Henry, a man who grew up on a sheep farm but developed a deep phobia of them.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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What the current vanguard of intensive parenting appears to reflect is a deepening phobia of diminishing returns.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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One of the most memorable chapters epitomizes her detestation for the ultra-wealthy and pompous intellectuals who rushed to rationalize her work.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
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Media coverage oscillated wildly between sycophantic applause and puritanical scrutiny - celebrities made to traipse an ephemeral, razor thin line between public adoration and detestation.Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 4 Aug. 2023
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“Anathema.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anathema. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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