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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

Higher oil prices, which are already hitting gas stations, airfares and shipping costs, could aggravate all three.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 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

When they succeeded they rode the wind and covered their mouths to aggravate their laughter.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

It wouldn't hurt if he weren't right—if I hadn't known somewhere that my weakness aggravates him.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

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

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

It was not the first time either Briggs or Murphy had taken positions that aggravated members of their parties in legislatures that have taken sharp turns to the right.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026

The last time Stewart threw live batting practice, he aggravated the injury by running afterward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

Ernest was fighting a chronic sinus infection, his back was aching, and an orthopedic brace that had been made for him fit so poorly it aggravated rather than relieved the pain.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 19 and faces up to 181 years to life in prison due to previous convictions and aggravating factors in the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

If central banks cut interest rates to boost growth during a period of stagflation they run the risk of further aggravating inflation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

He said Phelan's actions were a "joint enterprise with others" which was a "serious aggravating factor".

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

“This whole thing is aggravating because there’s no place in America where you can just take it down the road,” said Terry White, Discovery’s retired orbital processing chief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Equally aggravating was the fact that there still was no Eiffel challenger.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson