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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

Breathing air with high levels of NO2 can irritate airways, cause coughing, wheezing or make it difficult to breathe and worsen diseases like asthma.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Officials have said the main public health concern for those being affected by smoke is fine particles that can irritate the eyes, nose, throat and lungs, as well as exacerbate heart and lung conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

He was beginning to irritate Phoebe, you could tell.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

At the same time, nothing irritates him more than when a fellow old-timer “starts bemoaning the state of the industry and how things used to be,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

"You think - is this is how people are perceiving us? When they say nasty things about him or call me a gold-digger, it irritates me."

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025

This irritates the Chinese authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing to no end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

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

From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord

The customer seemed irritated that the answer required any effort on her part.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

In interviews, dozens of farmworkers reported suffering from nausea, burning eyes or irritated throats due to chemical-laced fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

"The band doesn't exist any more," he announces, sounding more irritated than sad.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Athens in turn has been irritated by a Turkish plan to enshrine into domestic law claims over parts of the Aegean.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

The tortoise’s sleepy gaze was fixed ahead, and while there was no change in his dull expression, Clare did not think he imagined that the shell-dweller grew irritated.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

She said it’s more irritating, for instance, to overhear social-media videos than to witness a face-to-face conversation at the same volume, because “personal listening devices are supposed to be personal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

It said the tell-tale signs of bedbugs include red, irritating bites and small blood smears on bed linen; and small brown insects in or around the sleeping area.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

After a rough start, including a run-in with an irritating policeman, she lands at the home of a baker, Osono, who gives her a place to stay in exchange for labor and her delivery services.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

“Essential oils are natural and can be irritating allergens. And ‘chemical-free skincare’ is scientifically impossible; water is a chemical, lipids are chemicals, and vitamins are chemicals.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

He explained to me, in a bloody irritating whisper, that he personally had no objection to smoking, but that, alas, the school’s policy was against smoking in the instructors’ room.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger