antagonized

Example Sentences

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Some also contend the deal has unnecessarily antagonized China, Australia’s main trading partner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

In a June 19, 1970 columna, he antagonized the left by describing the pachucos of a previous generation as “anarchistic.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia Law School, said Costello "greatly antagonized" Merchan.

From Salon • May 21, 2024

Yet this month, it antagonized someone much more powerful, and is already retreating just a touch.

From Slate • May 21, 2024

Fyntan and Celine must have been alarmed by our misguided outpost in Kilanga, where we slept in their same house, antagonized their former friends, even turned their parrot out to nature’s maw.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver