as in wrongs
unfair or inadequate treatment of someone or something or an instance of this
a group that has long suffered injustice at the hands of our judicial system
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Recent Examples of injustices
However, this doesn’t mean that someone with strong justice cannot be angry or vigorous about addressing injustices.
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Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Same as 20 years ago, when some Katrina evacuees navigated such injustices.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Of course, at the age of 8, one of the biggest injustices that Shariat, now 32, had was having to juggle her homework with her Kumon workload after school.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
The documentaries shine a light on environmental injustices, such as failure to adequately build levees to withstand a storm.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
Photographs show 1980s and 1990s New Yorkers taking to the streets, demonstrating against racial injustices and advocating for legal justice for Eleanor Bumpurs and other victims of police brutality.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The media fixture Amanda Knox — who was accused, convicted and exonerated of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher while both women were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, in fall 2007 — has lived through a litany of injustices.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Most murder is informed by broader systemic injustices and true crime media often fails to contextualize its horrors, leading to narratives that contort perpetrators into monsters rather than products of our flawed social systems.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
During the early 1970s when Black people were plagued with the perilous impacts of unchecked racial injustices, Hoover organized his neighbors to create better living conditions, personal wealth and political power.
—Jeremy Busby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Same as 20 years ago, when some Katrina evacuees navigated such injustices.
—Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Of course, at the age of 8, one of the biggest injustices that Shariat, now 32, had was having to juggle her homework with her Kumon workload after school.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
The documentaries shine a light on environmental injustices, such as failure to adequately build levees to withstand a storm.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
Photographs show 1980s and 1990s New Yorkers taking to the streets, demonstrating against racial injustices and advocating for legal justice for Eleanor Bumpurs and other victims of police brutality.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
The media fixture Amanda Knox — who was accused, convicted and exonerated of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher while both women were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, in fall 2007 — has lived through a litany of injustices.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Most murder is informed by broader systemic injustices and true crime media often fails to contextualize its horrors, leading to narratives that contort perpetrators into monsters rather than products of our flawed social systems.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
During the early 1970s when Black people were plagued with the perilous impacts of unchecked racial injustices, Hoover organized his neighbors to create better living conditions, personal wealth and political power.
—Jeremy Busby, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for injustices
Noun
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This does not mean genuine wrongs should be dismissed.—
Jonathan Alpert,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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The duo went on to work together in Highway to Heaven where Landon starred as a literal avenging angel, righting wrongs and looking out for people who couldn’t look out for themselves.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Those who dismissed intersectionality saw such policies as little more than allowing the disadvantaged to commit crimes without consequences to make up for past inequities, afflicting crime victims from the same disadvantaged communities.—
John Scott Lewinski,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Adapted from Bernard-Marie Koltès’s play ‘Black Battles with Dogs’, Denis’ riveting drama gives primacy to her actors – their dialogues expressing inner desires and articulating the broader societal inequities that prevail between those who reside on either side of the fence.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Injustices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/injustices. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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