irritant
Example Sentences
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These issues, analysts say, are not episodic irritants but symbols of imbalance.
From BBC
Rapid-response teams—made up of locals riding motorcycles and armed with firecrackers and devices that spray chili-pepper irritants—try to steer wandering elephants back into protected areas.
Video footage from witnesses showed Pretti holding his phone and filming agents before he was sprayed by a chemical irritant and taken to the ground by federal agents.
From Barron's
It was “related to chemical irritants used by the ICE agents,” according to Minneapolis fire-dispatch audio.
When observers gathered, the ICE officers deployed chemical irritants.
From Salon
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