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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrievement
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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
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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
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At the same time, word about the uneasiness within the United States' scientific community had spread worldwide, and many Goddard scientists and engineers began receiving recruitment emails from European research institutions.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Or, perhaps, there is the uneasiness surrounding fiction itself, how inert marks can so fully imitate life, like the blush on a body’s cheek, until there is uncertainty around what is real and what is fake, what is alive and what is dead.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
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That hints at the wider disquiet percolating in France.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
20 Oct. 2025
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As Charlotte explains, barely suppressing her resentment, Leroy is concerned that her commitment to the cause could stall his ascent at work.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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And interestingly, there’s no resentment between the obsessive and the expressive explorers, Brown said.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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Karbler notes that dejection and disappointment are common reactions in these kinds of scenarios.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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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 29 Nov. 2025.
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