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  • noun Plural form of repulsion.

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Examples

  • Let us, therefore, consider these pressures and tensions, or so-called repulsions and attractions that exist in this electro-magnetic Aether from the atomic standpoint, and by so doing try to realize how it is that one body, as the sun, acts upon another body, as the earth, through the intervening medium, the Aether.

    Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper

  • While the government has the preponderance in hardware, they lack the morale to carry out any major attacks, as we are seeing in the multiple repulsions of their attacks on the towns around Tripoli, said Gary Li.

    Analysts: Libya Faces Possible Military Stalemate 2011

  • While the government has the preponderance in hardware, they lack the morale to carry out any major attacks, as we are seeing in the multiple repulsions of their attacks on the towns around Tripoli, said Gary Li.

    Analysts: Libya Faces Possible Military Stalemate 2011

  • Deneuve plays Carol, a nervous young manicurist who goes about her days in the salon, quietly tending to bossy old ladies 'fleshy cuticles; but eventually finds herself languishing about her apartment, where, her pathological shyness, sexual repression and repulsions spiral into madness.

    Ten of Polanski's Best...Kitty Cat 2010

  • Deneuve plays Carol, a nervous young manicurist who goes about her days in the salon, quietly tending to bossy old ladies 'fleshy cuticles; but eventually finds herself languishing about her apartment, where, her pathological shyness, sexual repression and repulsions spiral into madness.

    Kim Morgan: Ten of Polanski's Best...Kitty Cat 2010

  • We might end up detailing our attractions and repulsions a bit insanely just to keep us safe from the gaze.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Sage 2009

  • Surely not by chirality or even monopole repulsions, but perhaps … too simple, an unexpected magnetic field generation?

    Mystery of the Flyby Anomaly Endures | Universe Today 2009

  • Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

    On Not Being a Dove John Updike 2009

  • Our lives are an intricate web of attractions and repulsions that play out in a vibratory dance that is literally music if we had ears to hear.

    The Hidden Life and Its Healing Medicine Power 2009

  • We might end up detailing our attractions and repulsions a bit insanely just to keep us safe from the gaze.

    Segregating Private Space Sage 2009

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