aggrievement

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Recent Examples of aggrievement 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 The aggrieved white parent is perhaps the most potent reactionary figure in this country and the American classroom is a common scene of their aggrievement, waging battles against school desegregation and leading efforts fighting the teaching of evolution. Esther Wang, The New Republic, 14 July 2021 See All Example Sentences for aggrievement
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrievement
Noun
  • In the canonical metaphorical example, a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and the cascading sequence of atmospheric perturbations leads to a tornado in Texas.
    Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • By comparing the forward and backward series of operations, the new algorithm can see the effects of this perturbation throughout the molecule and so model the molecule as a whole.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Missouri’s uneasiness Some Missouri officials involved in passing their state’s proposal, in interviews with The Star on Friday, expressed general uneasiness at the onslaught of information coming out of Kansas.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 19 Dec. 2025
  • An Undercurrent of Uneasiness America’s mood is a bit brighter since the government shutdown ended, yet there remains an undercurrent of uneasiness over rising health, home and food costs, and the possibility of the economy deteriorating next year.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 24 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Pluribus is all percolator, less interested in moving through story than in reacquainting us with the thrill of watching something unfold, the disquiet that comes from sitting too long with a feeling, and the strange clarity that emerges when your brain syncs to its rhythm.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • That hints at the wider disquiet percolating in France.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And the government’s insistence that Iranians must make sacrifices for distant causes breeds resentment rather than unity.
    Kamran Talattof, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Juggling careers and kids takes a toll on families, and housework often is fraught with resentments over who is doing it.
    Tracee M. Herbaugh, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Karbler notes that dejection and disappointment are common reactions in these kinds of scenarios.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • So, too, was the ecstasy at which City celebrated their equally exhilarating 3-2 victory over Arsenal, their joy at odds with the dejection of the Arsenal players who had twice clawed their way back to parity but failed to hold on.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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