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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

Alongside greenhouse gases, gas plants emit fine particulate matter, linked to a range of heart and lung problems; nitrogen oxides, which aggravate respiratory disease; and hazardous air pollutants including mercury, formaldehyde and benzene.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

The relative anonymity of these kids seemed to aggravate their plight and their despair.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

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

Late Tuesday, the prosecutor for Tours said the officer involved had been charged with aggravated battery.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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

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

I was still aggravated, not in the mood for chitchat.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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

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

Then days after being activated in early May, he landed on the IL again, after aggravating a bone spur in his left foot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

"See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me."

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins