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Recent Examples of aggrievement
Fox News is a world view, a lifestyle, a way of seeing the world, a 24/7 warm bath of false nostalgia and aggrievement primarily for older adults – some of whom are likely feeling left behind or threatened by the changes in American life.
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David Zurawik,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2023
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.
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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.
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Jacob Stern,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2022
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David Zurawik,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2023
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aggrievement
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The presence of a planet causes a tiny perturbation in the lensing of light from the background star.
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Adopt differential privacy or output perturbation (though this can degrade usefulness).
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That feeling, that kind of nervousness and uneasiness, just immediately went away.
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Many economists and financial analysts seem puzzled by Americans’ uneasiness about business conditions.
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Deadline hears that there is disquiet at the BBC over the corporation’s decision to broadcast helicopter footage of Andy Burnham‘s journey from Manchester to London.
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At the same time, the shrinking economy, new limits on internet access, blocks on popular messaging apps and concerns over state surveillance are adding to a wider sense of disquiet that is already starting to be reflected in polling data.
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Unlike the 13 colonies, East and West Florida were largely unaffected by the British Stamp Act and other taxes that fueled resentment elsewhere because the colonies produced relatively little for the British colonial economy.
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When a leader isn't accountable to the process, the word becomes a do-as-I-say cliché that breeds resentment instead of results.
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Four years later, there’s not a hint of complacency or dejection in France.
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But Floyd carries himself with a certain dejection, and the belly helped.
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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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