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More skincare products aren't necessarily better A complicated routine with frequent exfoliations or strong acids can irritate young skin.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The trial “will get Beijing’s attention and irritate them,” said Jonathan Czin, a China expert at the Brookings Institution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

We had little in common except the sisterly urge to irritate each other and our daily detente to watch “Saved by the Bell” for an hour after school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

His parents' constant badgering was starting to irritate him, and he told them he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

But when it goes away, so do our nightly doses of Colbert’s affable clowning, the kind that irritates thin-skinned despots in a way other comics can’t quite match.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

That tension with boxing's old guard irritates Paul.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

YouTube TV is already seeking rates similar to what bigger distributors Comcast and Charter pay, which irritates programmers, some of the people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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

It irritates her that Amma and I can chat in a language she doesn't understand, though Amma's told her we're not saying anything about her.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

He was also irritated by Bensky’s suggestion that the book was not perfect as it was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Inevitably a muscle or ligament gets stretched and a bit irritated," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

But “if you start to feel irritation, or your eyes are stinging or watering, or your nose is beginning to run or feel irritated, that’s a little more serious.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

Helmuth has missed his friend, finds himself irritated that Jungvolk duty has kept them apart.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Having sold her show about young, hip and irritating urbanites to HBO at the age of 24, Dunham was one of the first millennial showrunners, period.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

They said the coverage of the Instagram re-post row had been "deeply irritating" but added that the review was not directly linked to that incident.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Letisha Lucas, a 33-year-old tourist from Canada -- which has its own wildfires happening -- said the smoke smell was immediately obvious on arrival in Madrid "and very irritating on the throat".

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

Two irritating streaks of American futility were over—but the U.S. adventure at its home World Cup wasn’t ending yet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

He felt that it was sort of irritating to get this kind of advice from Gene— when he’s telling you the obvious, telling you what you already know.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston