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Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
Most of these channels include content related to right-wing extremism and other forms of radicalized hate.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
Holland and the production team have spoken out against the messages of hate, continuing to urge audiences to not look away from the ongoing humanitarian crisis and to resist the dehumanizing narrative spread by government authorities.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, who is the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, spoke to the group about his work to combat antisemitism and hate.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
This is an outrageous, outrageous type of hate that's being expressed.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2023
Students at the University of Connecticut have called on the university to do more to address hate incidents on campus.
—Fiona Glisson, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
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Both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel community leaders in the U.S. say hate and violence are not a part of their messaging.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
But this story explores an incident that has yielded few headlines: an act of hate against pro-Palestinian students at the University of Texas at Austin.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2023
Deborah Lovich, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
Or just hate constantly having to dump your vacuum's debris?
—Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023
These were the episodes in which viewers met Rachel’s sister Amy (Christina Applegate) for the first time and learned why Chandler hates Thanksgiving, what souvenirs Rachel saved from her relationship with Ross and how Chandler and Monica first met (a bad start that led to him losing his toe).
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
Music Daryl Hall on the ups and downs of duo-dom, his secrets to aging well and hating Jann Wenner
March 28, 2022
The two met in 1967 while escaping a shooting between rival gangs near Philadelphia.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
Since the October 7 attack on Israel, hate groups also have attempted to latch onto the pro-Palestinian movement to push their own antisemitism-promoting agenda.
—Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 14 Nov. 2023
Oliver has even been accused of hating birds by Save the Kiwi’s Erin Reilly.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
The second big change to Gmail starting in 2024 concerns something everyone hates, namely spam.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
Networkers get most of their motivation from building relationships with colleagues and are more likely to hate working from home.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 10 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, probably derivative of haten "to hate entry 2," replacing hete "hate, hatred," going back to Old English, going back to Germanic *hatiz- (whence, also inflected as an i-stem as in Old English, Old Saxon heti "hatred," and, inflected as a neuter strong noun, Old Norse hatr "hatred, spite" and Gothic hatis "anger, enmity"), perhaps going back to Indo-European *ḱh2d-es-, derivative of a base *ḱeh2d- "grief, pain, hatred," whence, with different ablaut grades and suffixation, Oscan cadeis (genitive singular) "ill will," Middle Irish cais "love, hatred," Old Welsh cás "bitterness, hatred" (Celtic from a derivative *ḱh2d-ti-), Greek kêdos (neuter) "care, grief, (in plural) funeral rites, mourning, connection by marriage," Avestan sādra- "grief, pain, calamity"
Note: Though this Indo-European etymon is generally accepted in etymological dictionaries of the relevant older languages, the semantic relations are far from transparent, in particular the relation between "grief, mourning, care" (Greek, Iranian) and "hatred" (Germanic, Italic, and Celtic, though the ambiguity of the Irish word is peculiar).
Verb
Middle English haten, going back to Old English hatian, going back to Germanic *hatōjan- (whence Old Saxon haton "to hate," Old High German hazzōn, Old Norse hata,), derivative from the base of *hatiz- hate entry 1
Noun
12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Hate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hate. Accessed 8 Dec. 2023.
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