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 system, he added, shifts control "decisively away from users", with "grievance processes and appeals operate on slower clocks", Gupta added.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

The internal grievance investigation concluded that she had experienced harassment but found that it did not amount to unlawful discrimination.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

“What kind of grievance does your family have to risk an escape?” the officer asked.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden