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verb

past tense of repulse

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Recent Examples of repulsed
Verb
Plenty of people bought it, plenty were repulsed by it. George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 June 2026 Firstman’s debut directorial effort, Club Kid, shrewdly acknowledges those garish personality tics, which have both endeared and repulsed audiences. Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026 Anyone who has worked in or observed the media industry for the last couple of decades will recognize and be repulsed by nepo-baby Jay, who is undeniably villainous. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026 Floyd, distraught by his own physical failures, is nevertheless repulsed by the sight of Carol in her big, burly ump gear. Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026 Pheidippides, legendary Greek hēmerodromos, or courier, who is popularly believed to have run 40 km (about 25 miles) from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens in 490 bce, to report that the Athenians, in a single afternoon, had repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece. Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026 Cilantro, a polarizing herb that’s either adored in Mexican, Southeast Asian, and Indian cuisines, or repulsed by those who detect a nauseating soapy taste. Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026 Nick is hired by a mafia don to confirm and then steal a priceless manuscript said to be Dante’s original Divine Comedy in his own hand, dragging Nick into an underworld he’s both repulsed by and complicit in. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026 After a disastrous trip to Mexico where Irina appeared repulsed by pretty much everything Zack did, the couple split and Zack crawled back to Bliss. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repulsed
Adjective
  • The first season ended with a big cliffhanger, in which Cooper emerged from a cocoon after a transformation to a shocked reaction though his appearance was not revealed.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 13 July 2026
  • In Atlanta last week, Mohamed Salah and his Egypt team-mates walked out of the stadium in shocked silence.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 12 July 2026
Verb
  • Kim The call left Kim Grindell disgusted, furious and wracked with guilt.
    Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 20 June 2026
  • Many of the crew members are disgusted by Vito's homosexuality, but Phil seems to take special exception to this revelation, going out of his way to demand Tony take him out and becoming violently angered even at the mere mention of Vito's name.
    Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • But they were outnumbered three or four to one by Argentina fans, who drowned them out with long flat roars whenever their team repelled a Spanish shot, or bundled a player off the pitch.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
  • In the United States, where Makdisi enrolled in college, she was repelled by American anti-Arab prejudices.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
Adjective
  • Lake Jesup, one of Central Florida’s largest water bodies, is also one of its sickest.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
  • What To Do Now Just washing produce doesn’t typically get rid of cyclospora, so the best way to avoid getting sick is to avoid food that could’ve been contaminated.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Officials on July 18 had said that a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms tested positive for the parasitic illness that has sickened thousands of people in the United States.
    Reuters, USA Today, 20 July 2026
  • Business + Finance A number of restaurant chains warned about the material business risk of cyclospora, the parasite that causes the cyclosporiasis illness, long before the current outbreak that may have sickened almost 7,000 people, including Yum!
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • The initial complaint, filed on the day he was apprehended, alleged Hurtado-Cariaco forcibly resisted arrest, according to a pre-sentencing court filing by McWilliams.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • That matters especially in the United States, where patient access, physician burnout and accelerating costs have all resisted incremental fixes.
    Adam Farren, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Adjective
  • The stench of corruption might become so overwhelming that a revolted electorate rejects the entire enterprise.
    Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • He was appalled by the slaughter, but, more than that, by the complacency of his neighbors, their willingness to ignore the bloody work being done under their noses.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • Many subjects were appalled by his treatment of his closest family.
    Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026

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“Repulsed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repulsed. Accessed 23 Jul. 2026.

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