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That will aggravate a budget deficit that already exceeded 6% of gross domestic product last year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

Minneapolis City Council member Soren Stevenson said the move would only aggravate tension.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

This heightened sensitivity can aggravate high blood pressure, diabetes and other chronic illnesses as well as raise the risks of accidents, falls and fractures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

“And it’s possible you hid it somewhere, to aggravate me.”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

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

"The worst time for me is when we're driving in the autumn and the sun is low and the sun is flickering through the trees...it really aggravates," says Dr Munro.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

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

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

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

Roberts didn’t expect the biceps issue to affect Ohtani’s throwing schedule between pitching starts, especially because he aggravated it on a swing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

Financial Supervisory Service Gov. Lee Chan-jin expressed sorrow at failing to halt the launch of single-stock leveraged ETFs in May, saying it might have aggravated market swings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Emma Raducanu missed training at Wimbledon on Thursday as she manages an injury aggravated by her run to the Queen's final.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

The aggravated assault statute under which she was charged exempts situations in which displaying a firearm is “reasonably necessary” for self-defense.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

Her expression was not as composed as when she visited us at the Merritt home; in fact, she seemed aggravated by something—probably the fact that I’d arrived late, although it had not been my fault.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Midtown felt like a party, even as the Secret Service closed off chunks of 7th and 8th avenue and warned of aggravating security lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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

He said the international community needed to do more to prevent foreign trawlers operating illegally in the region, aggravating locals.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

“The AI Doc” is a well-intentioned but aggravating soup of information and opinion that wants to move at the speed of machine thought.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

All this respect among the Japanese could get quite aggravating!

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata