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
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Noun
  • Rigid wings experienced abrupt destabilization, while passive soft wings without sensing and control struggled to recover from larger flow perturbations.
    Etiido Uko March 09, New Atlas, 9 Mar. 2026
  • And yet, the system is so sensitive that a small perturbation, given enough time, can steer its trajectory in a dramatically different direction.
    Antonios Mamalakis, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Then, noticing changes in the wind and the rocking of the boat, an uneasiness crept over the veteran seaman.
    Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • With time, any initial uneasiness and unfamiliarity on the part of our students gives way to a clearer understanding of preparedness and the confidence to act as their own first line of defense.
    Gayle Pearlstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But for outside observers and former military officials, those calls and conversations are an indication of a troubling disquiet within the ranks.
    Tom Bowman, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The reaction from Catholics around the world varied from disquiet to outrage.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Season 2 of the Netflix iteration dropped all nine of its episodes on April 10, with early promises to stay faithful evaporating as new attractions emerged and simmering resentments boiled over.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Apr. 2026
  • But Elham, a contentious and fiercely competitive student, suspects that Marjan’s zeal for anglophone culture, including Hollywood romantic comedies, masks a resentment for the Iranian life she is now stuck with.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Inside the visiting locker room at Frost Bank Center on Thursday night, there was no sense of dejection from the Detroit Pistons.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • As the score tilted more and more and more heavily in Memphis’ favor Friday night, Mavericks’ fans’ dejection level probably depended on their larger-picture perspective.
    Brad Townsend, Dallas Morning News, 27 Feb. 2026

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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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