cannot/can't stand

idiom

: to hate
I can't stand him.

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By those lights, what the state presented, at least in this complaint, cannot stand. Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025 Now, 36-year-old Toriyn Jackson can't stand the silence. Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025 As President Abraham Lincoln observed, a house divided against itself cannot stand. Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025 Abraham Lincoln once warned that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for cannot/can't stand

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“Cannot/can't stand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannot%2Fcan%27t%20stand. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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