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"I think a lot of country folk just want to be left alone to breed their sheep and hang their moles and resent people who come to the countryside with different views," he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Second, if she outlives him, I assume his children might resent her, since that could tie up a sizable portion of their inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

These aren’t the old voice assistants we’ve come to resent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

They don’t resent Mr. Trump because he was born into wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

The men resent those of us who have not known him long, the ones who are silent when they cheer.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Spending her Saturday not in uniform but in a T-shirt and jeans, she would like to enjoy a coffee outside -- and resents that her more religious compatriots think otherwise.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

But although Adrian soon picks up a camera as well, increasingly interested in being a filmmaker himself, he resents how his father intrudes on their time together by constantly shooting their conversations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

"As she said in her own memoir, she resents that others defined her the first time around," Jellison told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

Because there’s one thing worse than hunkering down during a snowstorm — and that’s doing so with someone who resents your spending.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 25, 2026

“You’ve always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents it. They won’t break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.”

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

"I think he really resented how loved she was, and how revered she was, and how adored she was, and that was actually part of why he wanted to destroy her."

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

He’s long resented her inability to contain the frenzy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2026

The country has no personal income tax—a reason why people moving here are often resented in their home nations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

I was wearing my best armor: a black dress that accentuated my curves, a striped bolero to cover the arms I’ve resented for years and black platform sandals displaying ruby toes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

He didn’t care for this man’s good opinion, and he resented her attempt to impress him.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

“When loneliness hits them and the lack of a social support system, they start resenting the locals and perhaps even avoid meeting them and isolate themselves.”

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

“When you don’t plan for joy, you end up either overspending impulsively or depriving yourself and resenting your money plan.”

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026

Without discounting the harshness of that imposed acculturation, he thanked what it gained him rather than resenting the means.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

Calo: Donna has forced Natalie for her whole life into the place of making it OK and then resenting her for making it OK.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024

Knot had taken on the project of teaching Nailer to read, and it hadn’t taken long for Nailer to begin resenting the tedium of book learning.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi