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"You can use this knowledge to help bedridden patients. They also experience constipation and likely also have increased protein fermentation that may aggravate health conditions," concludes Lars Ove Dragsted, senior author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Or does it only further aggravate the sense of loss?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

McIlroy is confident he would not aggravate the injury were he to play here this week.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 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

A Texas grand jury indicted ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly struck a fleeing man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Plummeting share prices for the Korean memory chip makers were aggravated by a drop in chip stocks in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Det Ch Supt Alison Hurst, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing for the West Midlands, said Webster had been investigated previously for racially aggravated offences and thanked BBC Wales for bringing him to their attention again.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He later served time in prison, pleading guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and other charges, but President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in October 2025.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

This enforced separation from his family aggravated the hatred for America that he’d felt since 1976, when he lost his case in federal court and refused thereafter to pay taxes.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The plaintiffs cite an additional aggravating factor: Shell's "history of misinformation regarding the causes and impacts of climate change," said Greg Lascelles, a lawyer at Hausfeld, the firm handling the lawsuit in London.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

He left the game in the middle of his next at-bat, aggravating the injury on a swing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

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

This breach of the order imposed on his work was an "aggravating" feature, the tribunal ruled, to already "significant" errors in surgery and post-op care, the hearing was told.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

The lined, painstaking, aggravating face of the coroner, the gold pince-nez on his nose.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier