How to Use microaggression in a Sentence
microaggression
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But to Dinh, the use of the term felt like a microaggression.
—Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
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And many times, that impact can even feel like a microaggression.
—Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
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This phase of microaggression isn’t anything new for the group.
—Andreas Hale, The Root, 9 Feb. 2018
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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
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In fact, that’s not even microaggression that’s outright aggression.
—Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 25 May 2021
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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
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In some circles, this kind of advice giving is considered a microaggression.
—Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
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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
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These include microaggressions, double standards, and unconscious bias to name a few.
—Esther J. Cepeda, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
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Now that microaggressions like these are being brought to light on social media, the conversation is opening up.
—Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018
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Reggie begins by sharing the daily microaggressions that consume his life.
—Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
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That’s levels of microaggression where that person is trying to devalue my opinion.
—Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 25 May 2021
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Sometimes their misogyny can be hard to spot—like a microaggression inflicted on a coworker.
—Ellen Pao, WIRED, 19 June 2018
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To many, this is yet another microaggression, another small slight meant to diminish its target.
—Ilana Redstone, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
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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
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While technically true, this isn’t really what most people would consider to be a microaggression.
—WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
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There are the microaggressions, the exclusion, the outright harassment.
—Allison Hope, Quartz at Work, 3 Dec. 2019
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The subtlety of microaggressions, however, doesn’t give employers an excuse not to address it.
—Fortune, 17 Dec. 2019
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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
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In May, the University of Arizona hired students to tattle on their peers for microaggressions.
—Katherine Timpf, National Review, 24 Jan. 2018
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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
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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
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Then there's the unconscious metacommunication, which is the message the microaggression sends.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 June 2020
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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
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For now, the best and only prevention against the spread of microaggressions is listening — actually listening — to one another.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
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Besides microaggressions and safe spaces, the chief villains in this tale are trigger warnings, which supposedly let students avoid hearing any uncomfortable ideas.
—Jonathan W. Wilson, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018
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Beyond these more obvious types of unsafe behaviors, there is microaggression, gaslighting, lack of communication, lack of boundaries, lack of awareness and bias.
—Megan Martin, Forbes, 28 May 2021
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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
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Halloran-Steiner said the program would include nine half-day training sessions focused on how to avoid microaggression and other behaviors that lead to harassment claims.
—oregonlive.com, 16 Aug. 2019
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The show introduces talking points with real meat—Muslim faith, trans issues, police mistreatment, racial microaggressions—but often overcooks the essence of their messages.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2018
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