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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cutting back on any government service is still anathema to liberals.
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For a long time dispersal of any book from a public library was considered anathema .
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Self-sufficiency is anathema to capitalism and, despite the already mentioned exhortations, is not what is required.
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Smothering the world with efficient carbon sink plantings, such as eucalyptus and genetically modified poplar, is an anathema .
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Specialists and careful empathic care are anathema to the bottom line, the chief concern of the managed-care companies.
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That would have been anathema to Taylor and earned his contempt.
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The notion that an enzyme might exist in a number of forms decided purely on probability is anathema to many scientists.
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The word profit is anathema to traditional governments, of course.