"I hate the term 'bachelor pad, ' " says Mr. Davis, who currently has a girlfriend.

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Many physicists hate the term "God particle" because it did not originate in the way you might think.

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He is an artist, though I suspect he would hate that term.

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Here he is meeting Cecil Beaton, partying with David Bailey in East London, throwing the party of the year in New York to herald the arrival of the Rolling Stones, raising horses in Arizona, releasing an album in July, and "doing up" (though he would hate that term) homes for the likes of Rod Stewart, Charles Saatchi and Princess Michael of Kent.

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And he said the term "love-hate relationship" could have been invented to describe the party's relations with the unions.

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Consumers hate uncertainty, so an agreement on ways to reduce long-term federal budget deficits could remove an impediment to growth.

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The usage there depends on the force of the term, which in turn depends on its historical and current usage in hate speech and its interconnection with other forms of racial discrimination.

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For the Greeks, the medical term for rabies (lyssa) also described an extreme sort of murderous hate, an insensate, animal rage that seizes Hector in "The Iliad" and, in Euripides' tragedy of Heracles, goads the hero to slay his own family.

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