exacerbate
Example Sentences
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But the issues caused by those shortcomings in attack have been further exacerbated by a poor record in defending set-pieces of late.
From BBC
“The flooding threat will be exacerbated ... Friday due to the super saturation of all of the area. Any rainfall that occurs will immediately turn to runoff,” the weather service office in Oxnard said.
From Los Angeles Times
That split among categories of consumers is exacerbating, according to the Federal Reserve’s latest compilation of economic anecdotes from around the country, known as the beige book.
Not only that, many refrigerants produce highly potent greenhouse gases, which threaten to exacerbate climate change.
From BBC
That wouldn’t prevent “carbon leakage”—the relocation of industrial activity to avoid regulation—but exacerbate it.
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