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Trump was roundly defended on Fox News, including by hosts who had reviled him in private.
—James C. Mckinley Jr. And, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
Al-Qaeda and ISIS forbid most music and revile the monarchy.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
It is reviled as a tool for mass killers.
—Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker And Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
The nonterritorial office is simultaneously the most reviled and the best liked of arrangements.
—George Musser, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
Rats are reviled but resilient, dangerous but inculpable.
—Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
The 19th century race science which modern biologists and anthropologists revile (to a great extent, rightly) did not give rise to the race system of the West.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2012
And very slowly, generations of Americans were raised to revile cigarette smoking.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
Instead, serial killers are meant for audiences to revile.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2022
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