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We see how growing up in a war zone and taking on the responsibility of his family’s future shaped him and how he fuels his drive with anger and resentment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Alex Clark, a popular podcast host in the Turning Point USA network, has also been struggling to tamp down her anger over this.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
A whole-brain analysis revealed different patterns of neural activity for fear compared with anger and sadness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Cuaya and her co-researcher, Raúl Hernández-Pérez, went on to investigate how dogs responded to other human emotions - showing dogs images of people displaying happiness, anger, fear, and sadness.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Dad looks at her, and his anger dies, replaced with exhaustion and resignation.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The wrinkle that angers buyers is that by event time, comparable replacement tickets on StubHub can cost significantly more than the customer originally paid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Perhaps what angers him most is that officers may never know the scale of what went on at Save A Paw.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Her response, “What’s our lesson here?,” angers him, and he tries to snatch her phone.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
That’s why it angers Watkins to hear some dismiss concerns about so-called lower levels of lead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2024
This angers him, and he wants to follow her, but I hold him by hooking my arms around his front, though he drags us out to the doorway.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
The K-pop group BTS angered fans after the band’s management company filed lawsuits against bootleggers: “They’re just hindering the spirit,” said one seller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Pyongyang has always been angered by the drills, decrying them as dress rehearsals for an invasion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
What really angered stakeholders, however, was Infantino’s brazen move to develop the FFE in secret, only to have its details leak out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Southwest Airlines is in the middle of major makeover that has angered some of its most loyal fans.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
He ignored her greetings, was angered by her wide-eyed look and her asking, “What is it, Ugwu? What did I do to offend you?”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Every time the narrative comes close to truly condemning children’s access to devices, the movie pulls back in fear of isolating or angering the audience.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
As recently as a year ago, they said, such a deal would have been unthinkable, because companies were nervous about angering Nvidia’s Huang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The bishops, often nervous about angering the public at a time when church attendance continues its steady decline, have to think carefully about whether to challenge these celebrity priests.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
At last year’s COP30 in Brazil, about 80 countries backed a road map to phase out oil, gas and coal, but it was dropped from the final document for lack of consensus, angering many delegates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
And if I laughed louder for the sake of angering him, if I smiled wider, and kissed Locke longer, that is a kind of deceit that even the Folk cannot condemn.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
