have recoiled
- present perfect of recoil.
Example Sentences
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Amid the rebuke, brands have recoiled back within the antiseptic neutrality where they’re most comfortable: irrelevant celebrity cameos, cheap millennial nostalgia, unmoored wistfulness for simpler days.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
Treasury yields have recoiled almost 30 basis points from Wednesday's highs to sit at 4.66% - and are on course for their biggest weekly drop since March.
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2023
How she would have recoiled to know that devotees of the faith called Thelema lived after World War II among the grand mansions of Pasadena’s Millionaire’s Row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2022
You’d have thought the conservative James would have recoiled at Hobert’s brashness, but he embraced the quarterback.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
Counterfeit zeal is likely enough to have recoiled from its own act in the very moment of its execution.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
