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If inhaled at high levels, fumes can aggravate a person’s lungs, causing coughing, wheezing and chest tightness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

For lawyer and activist Arif Ali Cangi, the legislation approved in July, which allows companies to expropriate or rezone agricultural land for mining, will only aggravate the situation.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

In fact, the so-called positive attributes men are told to cultivate aggravate his woefulness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

And people do leave, including the ones Lemon seems to aggravate the most.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

Although aggravate is widely used to mean “vex” or “annoy,” sticklers find this irritating. ago/since.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

NOx is a smog-forming pollutant that aggravates respiratory illnesses, especially asthma, forms acid rain and contributes to nutrient pollution in coastal waters.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The document asks all the right questions and reaches all the wrong conclusions—the way a doctor might correctly identify symptoms and then prescribe a remedy that aggravates the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Padgett prays daily to help him manage the pain of his third bout of cancer and the multiple herniated disks that sleeping on the ground aggravates.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

Or, if not that, he aggravates an existing tendency to rebrand the furthering of stereotypes and dangerous misinformation as “a difference of opinion.”

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2024

This aggravates his father no end, and several other adults have made nasty remarks about it too.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

"This inspection will provide an independent assessment of the force's training, processes and culture, including the handling of allegations of racially aggravated assault," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

But the Dodgers previously believed only pitching aggravated the injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Renault will face a criminal trial in France on aggravated fraud charges over accusations that devices in its diesel cars were designed to cheat clean air laws, the public prosecutor's office told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

It said that Rhodes "thoroughly warranted a long minimum term", but that aspects of the case should have further aggravated the sentence.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Today the FBI’s juvenile violent-crime index, which measures arrests for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, is lower than it was in 1980, and that’s true across racial lines.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Kazakhstan's cloud-seeding trials raised alarm in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan where fears were flagged of "cloud theft" -- alleging that rain clouds could be diverted to Kazakhstan, aggravating its own drought.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

He’s been throwing weighted plyo balls to keep his arm strength up without aggravating his knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Not only that, but air-conditioning is often criticised by environmentalists for aggravating climate change.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

It specified 10 aggravating factors, the presence of which would allow a jury to return a death sentence in the belief that such “guided discretion” would pass constitutional muster.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

“I know, thank you. Don’t point,” she said, and paid her bill with aggravating slowness.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers