object (to)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for object (to)
Verb
  • One day earlier, roughly 15 people had protested outside the ABC10 offices after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show following pressure from the federal administration.
    Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The mother is heard protesting at the officer's presence and reasons for being there.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In April, 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise, a Haitian, died while being held at GEO’s Pompano Beach facility after complaining of chest pains.
    Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And faculty worry that teaching certain subject matter and texts might offend students and, if students complain, lead to administrative sanctions.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gastineau says the video has led to him being ridiculed and scorned.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Imagine doing all this as a woman in fifteenth-century Europe, with three children to raise on your own, in a society that scorned women who took up a pen rather than the sewing needle.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Prosecutors also sought another charge of making false statements, court documents released Thursday show, but the grand jury rejected it.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • ByteDance and TikTok had challenged the law on First Amendment grounds but the Supreme Court rejected its appeal.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Having students experience that environment lowers the risk of employers hiring someone who dislikes it.
    Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Still, to adapt an old Jewish joke, some anti-Zionists dislike Israel a little more than is necessary.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • While the Second Circuit decidedly disfavors rehearings en banc, the court identifies several exceptional circumstances where petitions are granted.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Lulgjuraj, who is attempting to draw a grassroots versus establishment contrast in the race, criticized Bouchard for advocating on behalf of his son.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The couple have also criticized Netanyahu for not doing enough to free the hostages.
    Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 21 Sep. 2025
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“Object (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/object%20%28to%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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