Example Sentences

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Private-credit executives say the squeamishness is overdone, that institutional investors are still putting money into private credit and that the industry’s overall performance is strong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

In the United States, there’s a lot of squeamishness about using the term oligarch to describe people who have and use wealth-power.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2024

Global warming has certainly changed in the two decades since that conversation, but apparently Hollywood's squeamishness about fully acknowledging that reality has not.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024

“I’ve seen very, very few horror movies in my time, and I’m not a connoisseur,” says Barclay, who admits to a squeamishness about the violence associated with the genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

My squeamishness belonged in another age, but I’d brought it along with me.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler