exasperate
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The issues exasperate many of the remaining businesses.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
“They exasperate before and after. They dwell instead in a null space, a long between. Distrust anyone who tries to pin them to the pages of a book.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
However, quite how the hosts did not manage to win will mystify and exasperate the new man at the helm.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2022
The series can tend toward the twee, and the characters can exasperate.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John’s back, soon slipped.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
What further exasperates the residents of the complex is that there is a GP surgery less than 100m from their building.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2024
Ragnar speaks only Icelandic, which baffles and sometimes exasperates the priest.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
Norma López, a 56-year-old homemaker, has a post leaning just feet away from her balcony in Loiza, and it exasperates her every time she sees it.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
Emotions run high in Venice, the Italian island city that fascinates visitors even as it exasperates the dwindling band of local inhabitants.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2017
She exasperates him, as she does everyone who roots for her success, but he loves her mind and courage.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Lopez gets calls from exasperated merchants dealing with vandalism and with people blocking their storefronts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Analysts have said the housing bill won’t deliver immediate relief for exasperated home buyers and renters.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Rama has appeared exasperated in his response to the protests.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The chicken row gained traction after a local lawmaker alluded to the $40 menu price in an exasperated Instagram post that received over 9,000 likes.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Mom said in that exasperated “I’ve reached my limit” tone.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
At some forecourts in Bamako, motorists are met by a note bearing three, exasperating words - "no fuel today".
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Some of them, in fact, are quite exasperating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
With an exasperating parsimony he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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