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"You can use this knowledge to help bedridden patients. They also experience constipation and likely also have increased protein fermentation that may aggravate health conditions," concludes Lars Ove Dragsted, senior author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Or does it only further aggravate the sense of loss?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

If inhaled at high levels, these fumes can aggravate a person’s lungs, causing coughing, wheezing and chest tightness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

For lawyer and activist Arif Ali Cangi, the legislation approved in July, which allows companies to expropriate or rezone agricultural land for mining, will only aggravate the situation.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Dimly, Jonah realized that she may have been trying to aggravate him, to jolt him out of his gloom.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

NOx is a smog-forming pollutant that aggravates respiratory illnesses, especially asthma, forms acid rain and contributes to nutrient pollution in coastal waters.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The document asks all the right questions and reaches all the wrong conclusions—the way a doctor might correctly identify symptoms and then prescribe a remedy that aggravates the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Turning our heads toward the future aggravates the whiplash induced by rapid change.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

Padgett prays daily to help him manage the pain of his third bout of cancer and the multiple herniated disks that sleeping on the ground aggravates.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

It wouldn't hurt if he weren't right—if I hadn't known somewhere that my weakness aggravates him.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

Plummeting share prices for the Korean memory chip makers were aggravated by a drop in chip stocks in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

That helps explain why voters might be aggravated and still surprised when they see, for example, a $5 price tag on a gallon of milk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Det Ch Supt Alison Hurst, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing for the West Midlands, said Webster had been investigated previously for racially aggravated offences and thanked BBC Wales for bringing him to their attention again.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He later served time in prison, pleading guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and other charges, but President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in October 2025.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Ernest was fighting a chronic sinus infection, his back was aching, and an orthopedic brace that had been made for him fit so poorly it aggravated rather than relieved the pain.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The plaintiffs cite an additional aggravating factor: Shell's "history of misinformation regarding the causes and impacts of climate change," said Greg Lascelles, a lawyer at Hausfeld, the firm handling the lawsuit in London.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

He left the game in the middle of his next at-bat, aggravating the injury on a swing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Then days after being activated in early May, he landed on the IL again, after aggravating a bone spur in his left foot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

If central banks cut interest rates to boost growth during a period of stagflation they run the risk of further aggravating inflation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Also, he still wasn’t letting me drive Mom’s car, which was getting more aggravating by the day.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King