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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrieves
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Anyone who abuses a position of power and jeopardizes our national security will be held accountable.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025 -
Bowles abuses those pass-blocking rules by stunting the three-technique, Logan Hall (90), across the left guard's face, knowing the guard will follow him.—
Derrik Klassen,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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Anything that perturbs or enlarges the prostate could in theory increase PSA levels.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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The mistake tortures them, which prompts the couple to try and solve the mystery by producing a fake play in an attempt to get their ex-neighbor Mary (Chloe Cherry) to audition.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
3 Oct. 2025
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England managers have been guilty in the past of trying to shoehorn their best talents into a team, even if that upsets the balance.—
Rob Tanner,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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What upsets me the most about that is that people believe it.—
Katherine Dillinger,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Motion sickness afflicts one in three adults and one in two children.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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Whether the winner’s curse afflicts buyers in other countries remains an open question.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship, which cast him as a lonely guy who befriends, alienates, then becomes fixated on a cool neighbor (Paul Rudd), has some great moments but falters midway through due to a predictable plot.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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However, this same process often alienates the underbanked.—
Akhil Gupta,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, this annoys Alex to no end.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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This annoys his wife, who hankers after Bingley (sight unseen) as a future son-in-law.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Currently comprising more than 8,300 active satellites, the Starlink constellation also disturbs radio telescope observations.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The water is perfectly clear — until someone brushes the side of the cave or disturbs the soft bottom, sending fine silt particles billowing into the beam of a headlamp.—
Jennifer Walker,
CNN Money,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Aggrieves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrieves. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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