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Short-term exposure can irritate the lungs and nasal passages, and cause nausea and dizziness, said Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong, Orange County’s health officer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

It can irritate the lungs and trigger serious breathing problems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

That kind of dust is known to irritate the airways making it easier for bacteria to go from harmlessly sitting there to invading the body.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

"That happens when you don't completely kill the bacteria but merely irritate them," Mons says.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

Not that they needed much more to irritate them.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

‘How do you come up with things to write about?” a young George Will once asked William F. Buckley Jr. That’s easy, said the National Review founder, “the world irritates me three times a week.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Traditional oral iron supplements can help, but they often leave behind unabsorbed iron that irritates the digestive tract and triggers inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025

The ammonia gas irritates the nasal membranes, causing a reflex that increases breathing and heart rate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025

This irritates some pundits, as "vibes" are hard to measure.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024

It irritates me so much I taped this rule right above my doorknob.

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

Her in-laws had a different reaction: “We were showing them the house, and they got more irritated with every room — like, ‘You have books in here too?’

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Some purist footballers are particularly irritated by a lack of grass fields, as they offer a different playing experience to the artificial turf or concrete surfaces most common in New York.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

Mr. Massie has also irritated the president by raising his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who committed suicide in 2019 while in jail awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Elon Musk became visibly irritated on the witness stand Wednesday as an attorney for OpenAI questioned whether the billionaire backed off his financial commitment to the startup in its early years.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

She’s gritting her teeth and yelling, and the god looks surprised—in an irritated sort of way.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

For some, the noise is irritating but manageable.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency after a stubborn warehouse fire at a cold storage facility sent irritating smoke across the region.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026

For nearly 60 years, “60 Minutes” has stood apart because of its stubborn independence and commitment to irritating powerful people.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

A government source said the upgrade would "rocket boost connectivity on every main line train in Britain over the next few years, tackling both slow speeds and irritating not-spots".

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

But if I let that idea have any room and gave it any consideration, it would follow up with some bigger, harder questions that were just plain irritating.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan