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as in to perturb
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as in to afflict
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Recent Examples of aggrieve
British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a chemicals magnate and an avid outdoorsman, was aggrieved when Land Rover replaced its rugged and rudimentary old Defender with a design that shares its engineering principles with current passenger cars.
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Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2023
Amazon prohibits class action lawsuits in which aggrieved sellers can aggregate their claims and have their case decided by a judge or a jury.
—Sandeep Vaheesan, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
He was aggrieved when Hitler, in an attempt to make the National Socialists more palatable to the middle class, opposed the Rural People’s Movement, a popular anti-Weimar tax revolt, which was commendably trying to blow up buildings in Berlin.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
Foreigners who aggrieve the Chinese Communist Party seriously enough typically get banned from the country.
—Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 4 Feb. 2022
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Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2023
Amazon prohibits class action lawsuits in which aggrieved sellers can aggregate their claims and have their case decided by a judge or a jury.
—Sandeep Vaheesan, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
He was aggrieved when Hitler, in an attempt to make the National Socialists more palatable to the middle class, opposed the Rural People’s Movement, a popular anti-Weimar tax revolt, which was commendably trying to blow up buildings in Berlin.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
Foreigners who aggrieve the Chinese Communist Party seriously enough typically get banned from the country.
—Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 4 Feb. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrieve
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One in three say over-reliance on AI without developer accountability was their top worry, while one in five were perturbed that junior engineers may see their development stunted.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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There’s no telling which of those tests could perturb this new saltative branching model into its next evolutionary spike.—
Jake Buehler,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Aug. 2025
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The most vulnerable — starving children, people afflicted with leprosy, and pregnant women without the remotest possibility of healthcare — always needed tending to; that colonial reality was intact.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
27 Aug. 2025
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Make no mistake, those numbers are troubling for the hundreds of millions of those afflicted and a society that will have to shoulder the costs of their care.—
Dr. Marschall Runge,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Other dream themes emerge, some of them taking the form of inconsistencies, others disquieting vagueness.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
9 July 2025
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Vessel’s lyrics seem disquieted by the attention, though.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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As her condition worsens, her fiancé’s brooding cousin becomes an unwilling participant in the evil forces tormenting her.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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After George marries Rose and brings her back to the ranch with her teenage son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Phil begins to torment the new family.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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In a third discomposing show of baseball in as many days, the Brewers fell, 8-6, to the lowly A's, who looked like anything but in an emphatic weekend-long dismantling of a team that entered in first place.—
Journal Sentinel,
Journal Sentinel,
11 June 2023
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Many more were maimed, and almost all the carnage was the direct and intended result of Iran’s nascent Axis.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Over 45,000 children have been maimed.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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If this is your dog's first taste of bone broth, start with smaller portions and gradually introduce it into their diet to decrease the risk of upsetting their stomach.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
2 Sep. 2025
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The Gators face seven teams that are ranked last week and a Florida State team that upset Alabama.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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Emily Brontë appears in every way indifferent to the need for love and companionship that tortured the lives of her sisters.—
Emily Temple
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Jamie Simpson of Covington was sentenced in March to 60 years in prison for holding his wife captive and torturing her for hours before barricading himself inside her home in a lengthy standoff with police.—
Quinlan Bentley,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Aggrieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrieve. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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