grievance
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Another shared grievance is the widespread feeling of not being listened to, which is leading to an increasing "distance" and "dissociation" between ordinary people and the state, said Pleyers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
The changes address a long-simmering grievance among travelers, some of whom have encountered checkout instructions that read less like the end of a vacation and more like the beginning of a Saturday spent doing housework.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Should my friend file a grievance with the State Bar of Texas?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Days later, Attiah, who was represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild and Democracy Defenders Fund, filed a grievance saying she was wrongfully terminated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Nourishing a grievance against the Arch- Community-Songster was useless; there was no possibility of being revenged on the Chief Bottler or the Assistant Predestinator.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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The ramifications of the Argentina defeat, or perhaps more pertinently, the circumstances, meant some of the squad held grievances, with those feelings lingering and even growing throughout the summer.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
In the pathetic galaxy of Gen Z men, anything from mid-century magazine ads to a Disney-owned sci-fi epic for children can be a stand in for their cultural grievances.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
However, labour leaders say workers' grievances extend beyond the formation of the board, citing inflation and rising household expenses.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
But the social and economic grievances that boiled over so violently have not gone away, and nobody can escape the dreaded question: What’s next?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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