as in to object (to)
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The Federal Reserve’s vice-chair for supervision Michelle Bowman is now the second Fed official to support rate cuts as soon as July, opposing Fed chair Jerome Powell.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
24 June 2025 -
Those opposed to institutional real estate investors have pushed for restrictions or outright bans on SFR ownership by institutional investors.—
Caleb Petitt,
National Review,
24 June 2025
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The buildings’ raw, unfinished concrete forms, typically simple, are loved or hated.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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Stone, specifically, wrote that Amazon executives knew something was up once helicopters, which Bezos famously hated, became an obsession of his.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
27 June 2025
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The election of Donald Trump sparked a lot of anger among those who’ve loathed the man since 2016 and longed for continued reign in the White House.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
15 June 2025
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That’s how a Democratic primary turns into a contest between a disgraced Dem who loathes the left and a near neophyte leftist using the party as his vessel.—
Harry Siegel,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2025
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“Dissent (from).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissent%20%28from%29. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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