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Recoiling from efforts to regulate his power, he has battled with public officials and antagonized his critics.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2022

Recoiling from his touch, she said "go away".

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2022

Recoiling from the “mountainside of Tommy,” she thinks, “My God, don’t they know?”

From The New Yorker • May 31, 2018

Recoiling from this confrontation with my own awful solitude and omnipotence, I felt myself disintegrating.

From Scientific American • Nov. 27, 2012

The ponderous engine raised to crush us all, Recoiling, on his head is sure to fall.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander