grievance

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Contract negotiations, which began in September, have focused on the use of artificial intelligence, pay raises and “basic protections” including grievance procedures.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026

There was no recalibration nor hint of strategic retreat, only chest-thumping and grievance.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Instead there is always about him, in his public presentation, an air of grievance, of resentment, and a feeling of superiority—if you were a little brighter, you’d see it my way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 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

Not in half a thousand years have they forgotten their grievance that the lords of Gondor gave the Mark to Eorl the Young and made alliance with him.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien