love-hate

adjective

: feeling or showing a mixture of love and hate

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Investors have a love-hate relationship with stocks Investment experts say the survey results prove, more than anything, that American investors don’t entirely trust the stock market. Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 30 June 2026 Philpot took a trip down memory lane while discussing past seasons of the show, recalling the alternating love-hate relationship between Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance and Hannah Einbinder’s Ava Daniels. Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 19 June 2026 Still, people have a love-hate relationship with robots. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 15 June 2026 Williams-Dillard recalled decades of editing Fitzgerald, building the sort of love-hate professional bond any writer-editor pair develops over time. Matt Moret, New York Times, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for love-hate

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“Love-hate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love-hate. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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