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Noun
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Last fall, Judge Laura Taylor Swain found the city in contempt of a range of court orders and directed the parties to file proposals for an independent receiver.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2025 -
Mueller’s predecessor, Pritzker appointee Marc Smith, was held in contempt of court a number of times for violating court orders by failing to find children appropriate placements in a timely manner, though all or most of those orders were later vacated.—
Olivia Olander,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The elder Richards was an outspoken feminist who was given to salty one-liners, and who was open about her struggle with alcoholism and her disdain for phoniness, even in her own party.—
Jonathan Van Meter,
Vogue,
20 Jan. 2025
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But by taking on the bureaucracy, Ramaswamy and Musk are in fact demonstrating disdain for the dignity of working people.—
Jeffery Vacante,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2025
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Some dogs have been known to express unhappiness or jealousy following the arrival of a baby on the scene.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Ince’s death has remained the subject of speculation and was the focus of Peter Bogdanovich’s 2001 film The Cat’s Meow, which suggests that Hearst mistakenly shot Ince in a fit of jealousy over Chaplin’s alleged affair with actress Marion Davies.—
Ryan Gajewski,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Jan. 2025
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Taylor-Joy brings a cagey survivalism to Margot, a girl who gives the sense she's had to get herself out of ugly scenarios many times before, and the notes Chau hits are delicious, a symphony of passive-aggressive bitchery.—
Leah Greenblatt,
EW.com,
16 Nov. 2022
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Meredith attempts to bond with Hallie upon their first meeting, and only responds with bitchery after Hallie continually provokes her.—
Kristen Lopez,
Vox,
28 July 2018
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My read is that Corbet is pointedly leading the viewer to pore over the specifics of Tóth’s fate: Although the director’s disgust for the hollowness of the institution that Tóth tries, and ultimately fails, to navigate is thuddingly clear, what happens next to the character is more oblique.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2025
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From celebrities to plutocrats like Elon Musk, there’s more disgust with the elite than ever.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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One of the more intriguing elements is his apparent distaste for American military interventionism — a break with the hawkish neoconservatism seen during the Bush administration, when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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Others planning to stay away cited a distaste for inaugurations, a loathing of Trump — and even fears for their safety.—
Mike Allen,
Axios,
14 Dec. 2024
Noun
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It is also being met with outsize revulsion by many voters.—
Karla Adam,
Washington Post,
26 June 2024
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The collective and immediate show of opprobrium and moral revulsion by Western governments, corporations, and cultural bodies meted out wide-reaching and consequential stigmatization.—
Alexander Cooley,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Oct. 2022
Noun
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Milk symbolizes innocence and purity, and the adult who continues to indulge in it — nay, cling to it — long after their loss of innocence provokes light repulsion, confusion, and fascination in the observer.—
Allison P. Davis,
Vulture,
27 Dec. 2024
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Despite its promise, fusion requires extremely high temperatures and pressure to overcome the natural repulsion between atomic nuclei, a challenge that has taken decades of research to address.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
19 Dec. 2024
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