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resentment

[ri-zent-muhnt] / rɪˈzɛnt mənt /


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Having "open conversations about expectations and the reasons behind decisions" can help reduce feelings of resentment about money, Christodoulidi says.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

Brian Schaer, 43, a limestone miner from southern Iowa, sums up the inchoate resentment: “It’s frustrating when you don’t get your stuff going.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

There’s no moral gotcha — no resentment toward the character or the predicament they find themselves in.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

That gap is not primarily a story about rising working-class racial resentment.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

She knew that Odenigbo would never touch another woman, had quietly convinced herself of this, and knew too that Mama Oji nursed a deep resentment of Alice.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Only when they arrive from their various locales, carrying their various loads of secrets, generosity and resentments, do the daughters discover what kind of help their mother wants.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

But as the years and resentments pile on, their cancerous brotherhood threatens to obliterate them both.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

Piling up resentments around the world is one heck of a form of statecraft.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

Contrary to your wishes, it could rekindle their resentments.

From MarketWatch Jan. 26, 2026

If she had resentments of her own, Emily sympathized.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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