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
One particularly confounding and repeated grievance is the film’s title.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 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
It should synthesize a particular grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The Bill of Rights
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