can't abide
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"Two, I think, were allowed to retire. Only one received a written warning. We can't abide by that."
From BBC • May 6, 2026
And then there are the many authors who can’t abide working in a room of their own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
An affair is one thing, but Suzannah can’t abide Hanna’s claim that she — not Suzannah — inspired Ibsen’s feminist icon, Nora Helmer, in “A Doll’s House.”
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024
But what I can’t abide is that she’s credited with a record when in two of those tournament victories she didn’t have to play a completed final, a fact that is seldom noticed or mentioned.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
“I can’t abide staying here, worrying. It’ll be months with no word. Not knowing if you’re hurt. Or dead. Not one”—she looks at me—“but maybe both of you lost. Beyond my care.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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