resentment
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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
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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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