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Recent Examples of aggrievement
Her work — which includes leading the 2,500-member National Republican Lawyers Association — has endeared her to the nation’s most powerful Republican, former President Donald Trump, someone who lives in a near-perpetual state of aggrievement.
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Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 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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Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 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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In another breakthrough, researchers built an ultra-sensitive microphone informed by spider silk, which vibrates with the subtle perturbations of sound waves moving through the air.Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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The rise of quantum sensors, which can detect delicate perturbations in the environment at the atomic level, promises even greater sensitivity and accuracy.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2024
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But this apparent calm masks major sources of disquiet.Paul Staniland, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2019
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Meanwhile, the voices of disquiet around them are getting louder.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Cherry titrates Dylan’s outie with notes of resignation and resentment, and Turturro bolsters outside Irv — a lonely artist — with genial warmth.Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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The national blindness to the depth of Moro resentment has led Philippine politicians and policymakers to treat Moros as wayward children who can be set right through minor concessions, or if those fail, through force.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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Just like that, an entire team’s optimism and energy turned into dejection and disbelief.Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
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The day after a high-stakes presidential election usually brings elation on one side and dejection for the other.Daniel Wine, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Aggrievement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aggrievement. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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