How to Use microaggression in a Sentence

microaggression

noun
  • But to Dinh, the use of the term felt like a microaggression.
    Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
  • This phase of microaggression isn’t anything new for the group.
    Andreas Hale, The Root, 9 Feb. 2018
  • And many times, that impact can even feel like a microaggression.
    Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Trump’s actions sparked a series of back-and-forth microaggressions that taken together have brought the two countries to the edge of war.
    Pete Gelling, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2019
  • And even what some may consider a minute microaggression — a sideways look or subtle racist dig — can have long-term health effects.
    Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2021
  • In May, the University of Arizona hired students to tattle on their peers for microaggressions.
    Katherine Timpf, National Review, 24 Jan. 2018
  • It’s just crazy college kids, who cares about their microaggression jibber-jabber?
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 June 2022
  • Weaver spoke candidly about growing up as a young nerd who was bullied by his peers and subjected to microaggression by his teachers.
    Tamara Wilson, CNN, 9 Oct. 2020
  • There are the microaggressions, the exclusion, the outright harassment.
    Allison Hope, Quartz at Work, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Now that microaggressions like these are being brought to light on social media, the conversation is opening up.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018
  • She was offered not an on-air interview with both anchors but only the chance to appear in an online piece about microaggressions, in a brief edited segment with Baumgarten.
    Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 15 Feb. 2018
  • In some circles, this kind of advice giving is considered a microaggression.
    Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • These type of microaggressions occur too often on campus.
    Fox News, 20 June 2019
  • These include microaggressions, double standards, and unconscious bias to name a few.
    Esther J. Cepeda, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
  • In fact, that’s not even microaggression that’s outright aggression.
    Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 25 May 2021
  • But some students and professors are standing up against the new culture of safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions and bias response teams.
    Emily Esfahani Smith, WSJ, 17 June 2018
  • That’s levels of microaggression where that person is trying to devalue my opinion.
    Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 25 May 2021
  • Sometimes their misogyny can be hard to spot—like a microaggression inflicted on a coworker.
    Ellen Pao, WIRED, 19 June 2018
  • Reggie begins by sharing the daily microaggressions that consume his life.
    Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
  • That this ugly microaggression has now been heard around the world is some form of progress, an affirmation that the current royal hierarchy better understands what is at stake.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The microaggression meditation invites us to pause and feel the impact of those incidents, easing the stress that can result from harboring emotional pain.
    Devyn Beswick, Bon Appétit, 24 June 2021
  • At such moments, everyone froze while the two involved players—who had just minutes before been trying to destroy each other—tried to reach a consensus free of microaggressions.
    Michael W. Miller, WSJ, 24 May 2018
  • To many, this is yet another microaggression, another small slight meant to diminish its target.
    Ilana Redstone, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Then there's the unconscious metacommunication, which is the message the microaggression sends.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 June 2020
  • Hamilton Southeastern Public Schools has since updated a microaggression section to their handbook, causing some parents to push back at the June 8 school board meeting at which the measure was approved.
    Fox News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • But our sessions took a weird turn when some of my anxiety about my income and struggle with friends and family intersected with racial oppression and microaggressions.
    Jacy Topps, Glamour, 30 May 2018
  • As Brea heads inside, John is accosted by a trio of gnarly white bikers, who move from casual conversation to racial microaggressions to all-out aggression.
    Andrew Barker, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The microaggression veiled as an innocent question about a group whose name is an acronym for Niggaz Wit’ Attitude was asked a third time, this time by the mother who had abruptly ended her short conversation with me to wonder about her cat.
    Bernice L. McFadden, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Real Life is a book of debilitating microaggressions, a book wonderfully observant on the toxicity of whiteness, and a reminder of what even the smallest racial slights can do to the body and mind.
    Wired Staff, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The subtlety of microaggressions, however, doesn’t give employers an excuse not to address it.
    Fortune, 17 Dec. 2019

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