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Recent Examples of aggrievement
Her work — which includes leading the 2,500-member National Republican Lawyers Association — has endeared her to the nation’s most powerful Republican, former President Donald Trump, someone who lives in a near-perpetual state of aggrievement.
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Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2023
If aggrievement offers a general motive for mass murder, a shooter’s choice of location may offer more specific clues as to the circumstances that set him off, experts say.
—Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
The Russian nationalist leader was a senior lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West but appealed to Russians’ aggrievement and wounded pride.
—Bernard McGhee, al, 31 Dec. 2022
Predictably, the few recent mandates have elicited a good deal of aggrievement and derision from the anti-masking set.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2022
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Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2023
If aggrievement offers a general motive for mass murder, a shooter’s choice of location may offer more specific clues as to the circumstances that set him off, experts say.
—Melissa Healystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
The Russian nationalist leader was a senior lawmaker whose sulphurous rhetoric and antics alarmed the West but appealed to Russians’ aggrievement and wounded pride.
—Bernard McGhee, al, 31 Dec. 2022
Predictably, the few recent mandates have elicited a good deal of aggrievement and derision from the anti-masking set.
—Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrievement
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Tahoe Therapeutics and the Arc Institute have recently partnered in the launch of the Arc Virtual Cell Atlas: the most comprehensive and diverse public database of single-cell level transcriptomic data across a wide range of perturbations.—
Amelia Palermo,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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There were perturbations in levels of omega-6 fatty acid, homocysteine, total protein, bilirubin and a host of other things.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The fate of the hostages is a visceral issue for most Israelis and one that has caused increasing disquiet and division in Israeli society as the war has dragged on.—
Reuters,
USA Today,
7 Oct. 2023
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Lewi said the shows are tied together by themes of disquiet.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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On both sides of Kashmir’s line of control, people feel powerless as their politicians rehash old arguments, potentially reigniting decades of smoldering resentment.—
Nic Robertson,
CNN Money,
5 May 2025
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Beyond the politics is a complex brew of resentment and reverence that the president, an Ivy League graduate himself, has long harbored for a club that has never really accepted him.—
Elisabeth Bumiller,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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Ferran is just as compelling when such vibrancy and vitality gives way to dejection and disharmony as her aspiring writing career grinds to a halt and her health starts to deteriorate.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
2 May 2025
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The dejection stemming from Wagner’s knee injury gave way (for a moment, anyway) to pure elation.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
22 Dec. 2024
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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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