How to Use microaggression in a Sentence

microaggression

noun

• But to Dinh, the use of the term felt like a microaggression.
  — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2021
• This phase of microaggression isn’t anything new for the group.
  — Andreas Hale, The Root, 9 Feb. 2018
• And many times, that impact can even feel like a microaggression.
  — Teresa Hopke, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Trump’s actions sparked a series of back-and-forth microaggressions that taken together have brought the two countries to the edge of war.
  — Pete Gelling, Quartz, 21 Sep. 2019
• Weaver spoke candidly about growing up as a young nerd who was bullied by his peers and subjected to microaggression by his teachers.
  — Tamara Wilson, CNN, 9 Oct. 2020
• These type of microaggressions occur too often on campus.
  — Fox News, 20 June 2019
• There are the microaggressions, the exclusion, the outright harassment.
  — Allison Hope, Quartz at Work, 3 Dec. 2019
• Now that microaggressions like these are being brought to light on social media, the conversation is opening up.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2018
• In some circles, this kind of advice giving is considered a microaggression.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• And even what some may consider a minute microaggression — a sideways look or subtle racist dig — can have long-term health effects.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2021
• Reggie begins by sharing the daily microaggressions that consume his life.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 4 May 2018
• It’s just crazy college kids, who cares about their microaggression jibber-jabber?
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 June 2022
• That’s levels of microaggression where that person is trying to devalue my opinion.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 25 May 2021
• Sometimes their misogyny can be hard to spot—like a microaggression inflicted on a coworker.
  — Ellen Pao, WIRED, 19 June 2018
• These include microaggressions, double standards, and unconscious bias to name a few.
  — Esther J. Cepeda, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
• In fact, that’s not even microaggression that’s outright aggression.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 25 May 2021
• But some students and professors are standing up against the new culture of safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions and bias response teams.
  — Emily Esfahani Smith, WSJ, 17 June 2018
• But our sessions took a weird turn when some of my anxiety about my income and struggle with friends and family intersected with racial oppression and microaggressions.
  — Jacy Topps, Glamour, 30 May 2018
• The microaggression meditation invites us to pause and feel the impact of those incidents, easing the stress that can result from harboring emotional pain.
  — Devyn Beswick, Bon Appétit, 24 June 2021
• To many, this is yet another microaggression, another small slight meant to diminish its target.
  — Ilana Redstone, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021
• That this ugly microaggression has now been heard around the world is some form of progress, an affirmation that the current royal hierarchy better understands what is at stake.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
• In May, the University of Arizona hired students to tattle on their peers for microaggressions.
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 24 Jan. 2018
• Then there's the unconscious metacommunication, which is the message the microaggression sends.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 June 2020
• She was offered not an on-air interview with both anchors but only the chance to appear in an online piece about microaggressions, in a brief edited segment with Baumgarten.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 15 Feb. 2018
• The subtlety of microaggressions, however, doesn’t give employers an excuse not to address it.
  — Fortune, 17 Dec. 2019
• At such moments, everyone froze while the two involved players—who had just minutes before been trying to destroy each other—tried to reach a consensus free of microaggressions.
  — Michael W. Miller, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• For now, the best and only prevention against the spread of microaggressions is listening — actually listening — to one another.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Her writing cleverly captures the hallmarks of modern life: texting teens, microaggressions at school and competitive friendships.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2020
• Real Life is a book of debilitating microaggressions, a book wonderfully observant on the toxicity of whiteness, and a reminder of what even the smallest racial slights can do to the body and mind.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
• Besides microaggressions and safe spaces, the chief villains in this tale are trigger warnings, which supposedly let students avoid hearing any uncomfortable ideas.
  — Jonathan W. Wilson, Vox, 12 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024