aggravation
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The stop-start feature helps lower emissions—and raises Americans’ aggravation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Sweeping contentious issues under the rug and relegating them to wanton aggravation is one major way of letting these same topics fester.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
The Milan court found that no aggravation had been involved as a consumer group had withdrawn its original complaint.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
The charges had been said to have had a connection with serious organised crime, but this aggravation was deleted by prosecutors at the end of the evidence.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
She is quieter than usual, with an air of injured aggravation.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
There, among the seamstresses in training, Duncan met other welfare mothers, equally desperate, and recognized the stinginess, indifference and bureaucratic aggravations she’d been suffering in isolation were part of a larger system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Such are the occasional aggravations and annoyances that bedevil the tony section of Los Angeles that Harris calls home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
But such aggravations do not drive her political desires.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
On Saturday Mr Niinisto called Mr Putin to tell him of the Finnish decision and later said the call had been "direct and straight-forward" and "conducted without aggravations".
From BBC ● May 15, 2022
And in fact the afternoon took the form of an ever-growing pile of aggravations.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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