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
  • In the canonical metaphorical example, a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and the cascading sequence of atmospheric perturbations leads to a tornado in Texas.
    Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • By comparing the forward and backward series of operations, the new algorithm can see the effects of this perturbation throughout the molecule and so model the molecule as a whole.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Oslo musician’s debut album is a darkly glamorous blur of trip-hop and dance pop, with copious reverb and Auto-Tune as stand-ins for yearning, uneasiness, and irresolution.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Missouri’s uneasiness Some Missouri officials involved in passing their state’s proposal, in interviews with The Star on Friday, expressed general uneasiness at the onslaught of information coming out of Kansas.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The operations have created a culture of disquiet that has chilled New Orleans’ usually vibrant atmosphere, according to politicians, activists and business owners.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Additionally, her former schoolmate, who is now an activist nun, brings disquiet to the community when she is stranded there while returning the remains of a former nun, a murder victim.
    The Know, Denver Post, 7 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Still, over time, even harmlessly annoying behaviors can breed resentment in a friendship.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Even if the Pirates relent, McCutchen’s resentment might linger.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But the main source of dejection was the incredible tour de force of executive power in which Trump’s White House was engaged.
    Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Karbler notes that dejection and disappointment are common reactions in these kinds of scenarios.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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