averse

In a sentence

Six example sentences with averse, each labelled with its topic.

• Pension trustees are averse to anything without a decade of returns behind it, however good the new fund looks.

  Finance

• The committee chair is averse to open hearings, and every request for one has died quietly in the scheduling office.

  Politics

• The founders are averse to outside capital, and they have turned down three offers that would have doubled the team.

  Startups

• The coach is averse to zone defense and will run man-to-man even against a team of pure shooters.

  Basketball

• My grandmother was averse to measuring anything, and her bread still came out identical every single Sunday.

  Cooking

• People averse to loss will decline a fair game even when the possible gain is twice as large as the possible loss.

  Psychology

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