aggrievement

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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for aggrievement 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrievement
Noun
  • However, perturbations from the sun's gravity will ultimately break this temporary gravitational dance, sending 2024 PT5 back to its home in the Arjuna belt.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Relative genotoxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons inferred from free energy perturbation approaches.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But this apparent calm masks major sources of disquiet.
    Paul Staniland, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the voices of disquiet around them are getting louder.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This week's fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has unleashed a wave of public feeling – exasperation, anger, resentment, helplessness – from Americans sharing personal stories of interactions with insurance companies, often seen as faceless corporate giants.
    TOM MURPHY and DEVI SHASTRI, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2024
  • This week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has unleashed a wave of public feeling — exasperation, anger, resentment, helplessness — from Americans sharing personal stories of interactions with insurance companies, often seen as faceless corporate giants.
    DEVI SHASTRI, Chicago Tribune, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The day after a high-stakes presidential election usually brings elation on one side and dejection for the other.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Through June 2019, Zoe’s Kitchen was still rapidly deteriorating, and its financial losses and worker dejection were taking a toll on Cava.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024

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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.

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