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exacerbate

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Gelfond is a procrastinator, a tendency that virtual school has exacerbated.

Air pollution, warned a group of top cardiological health organizations, also was exacerbating the risk of covid deaths.

In his State of the City address last month, Gloria said the pandemic had “exacerbated longstanding city budget problems the last administration did too little to address” and that the city faced structural budget deficits.

“The pandemic has exacerbated all of the city’s budget problems,” Gloria said.

With that said, if we don’t assess where our students are and their level of performance, it will be difficult for us to provide some targeted support in our resource allocation that can best support the closing of gaps that have been exacerbated.

They wind up on the streets or in jail, environments that will exacerbate their problems.

And a coup probably would exacerbate the economic problems that months of friction, violence and impasse have wrought.

They can exacerbate splits within a ruling leadership, foment popular unrest, or expedite a dwindling current account.

But instead of taking my edge off, all the wine did was exacerbate my starvation-induced headache.

He said the administration would only approve the project if it “does not significantly exacerbate the climate problem.”

The negro's competition for jobs and homes will probably exacerbate relations.

To remove all things which may alarm, torment, or exacerbate?

It's not for you, and you do but exacerbate the frightful pain there's been in feeling it with them.

Any foreign intervention serves only to exacerbate the situation by increasing the number and intensity of inter-ethnic grudges.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exacerbate, such as: aggravate, annoy, heighten, inflame, intensify, and irritate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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