injustice
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At an execution site of local people during British colonial times, the king paused to reflect in a gesture meant to indicate his awareness of this past injustice.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
But the nonvirtuous road, Smith warns, risks ruin: “habitual imprudence . . . or injustice, or weakness, or profligacy, will always cloud, and sometimes depress altogether, the most splendid professional abilities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"Having this conviction quashed is not simply about correcting the record, it's about finally having validation that this is an injustice that never should have happened," the 45-year-old said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Her story of racial injustice and childhood innocence, set in Alabama in 1934, has sold more than 40 million copies around the world and has been translated into 40 languages.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
I would have given the book to Margot myself, and a lot sooner, if Father and Mother hadn’t intervened and rushed to take Margot’s part, as if she were suffering some great injustice.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"Her life's work was to empower her community to face and overcome injustices, and she has left farm workers and the entire Latino community stronger and more organised than she found it," the UFW said.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
An official inquiry in 1967 found the National Coal Board was responsible for the Aberfan disaster, but survivors and bereaved families have long pointed to a litany of injustices.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
“And naive. Because, we thought, ‘These injustices are so great, surely if we just explain them to people, they will want to fix them.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Its emotional descriptions of slavery’s injustices caught the public’s attention.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing injustice
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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