grievance

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For others the trigger is grievance, isolation or personal instability, which gradually hardens inside online echo chambers, where resentment circulates freely.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

The decision created a lame-duck host with a nightly platform and a growing sense of grievance.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

The motive for the attack remains unclear, although local media reports suggest the suspect may have had a grievance with a teacher at the school.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

Brazil's Indigenous communities have raised the alarm for months about port expansion on rivers they see as vital to their way of life, a grievance they protested at COP30 climate talks last November.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

Stannis Baratheon with a grievance was like a mastiff with a bone; he gnawed it down to splinters.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin