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The show hinges on finding an ordinary person who, plunged into a group of people he’s never met before, doesn’t reject them as weird or objectionable but embraces them at some basic human level.—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 June 2026 Europe’s newfound openness to African industrialization is not because dependency suddenly became morally objectionable, but because Europe increasingly fears dependency itself.—W. Gyude Moore, semafor.com, 25 May 2026 The jokes Che wrote for Jost were no less objectionable.—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 17 May 2026 The radio call-in format dates back to the 1950s, although in some of the first shows to feature listener calls, the calls were recorded for later broadcast, or the hosts summarized them to avoid objectionable content being aired.—Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for objectionable