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Examples of hateful in a Sentence
the girl's classmates were bullying her online, sending her hateful e-mails and text messages
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Still, both would agree that the rise in hostility gave way to a similar rise in invective, leading to barbs with a hateful bite.
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Ben Croll, Variety, 15 Apr. 2024
Compared to the truly hateful male drivers that scream at her on the road all day, however, the dude is a pussycat.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
Some of the delay is because OpenAI reportedly has a set of experts called a red team who, the company has said, will probe the model to understand its capacity for deepfake videos, misinformation, bias, and hateful content.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
The next morning, one of the other guests made some hateful comments about Black people.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
That hateful statement harkens to the white nationalists who uphold the flag as an affirmation of white supremacy.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
Jonathan Mintzer, director of external relations at the Jewish Community Relations Council in the Bay Area, said the resolutions and surrounding public debates often stir up hateful rhetoric and deeper division.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
There’s still an endless barrage of hateful legislation right here in the States.
—Lz Granderson, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Ward’s office cited hateful pamphlets being distributed in San Diego, Los Angeles and Fresno last year.
—Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
Ben Croll, Variety, 15 Apr. 2024
Compared to the truly hateful male drivers that scream at her on the road all day, however, the dude is a pussycat.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
Some of the delay is because OpenAI reportedly has a set of experts called a red team who, the company has said, will probe the model to understand its capacity for deepfake videos, misinformation, bias, and hateful content.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2024
The next morning, one of the other guests made some hateful comments about Black people.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
That hateful statement harkens to the white nationalists who uphold the flag as an affirmation of white supremacy.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
Jonathan Mintzer, director of external relations at the Jewish Community Relations Council in the Bay Area, said the resolutions and surrounding public debates often stir up hateful rhetoric and deeper division.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
There’s still an endless barrage of hateful legislation right here in the States.
—Lz Granderson, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
Ward’s office cited hateful pamphlets being distributed in San Diego, Los Angeles and Fresno last year.
—Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Hateful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hateful. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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