vexation
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Holly is already known to police because she’s in the habit of sneaking into the house where she grew up and sleeping there overnight, to the vexation of the current owners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
"You might be feeling a familiar vexation at the sight of these two formerly innocuous numerals," Dictionary.com said, addressing parents as it announced the winner this week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
Even if you don’t care about bowling, his vexation is understandable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
He’s more strategic about his delivery than in his previous special, varying the pace, taking a break from his roaring vexation to become softer on occasion, allowing silence for a jarring contrast.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2022
Your silence these past few months has convinced me that either you are deceased, or I have earned your vexation.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Ahead of Sunday’s election for a new parliament and government, those vexations are being heard again as the European Union country’s two main parties, the center-left Socialists and the center-right Social Democrats, compete for power.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
By now, the litany of vexations is well known: the jammed phone lines, the hours on hold, the online system that balks and crashes, the inexplicable responses to re-file and then re-file again.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2020
The current zest for new privacy laws is also likely to stall as lawmakers wrestle with the technical complexities and constitutional vexations sure to emerge with any legislation to control content on the internet.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018
Brandeis, he argues, is “the Jeffersonian who has most to teach us about our contemporary vexations involving political economy, civil liberties, and Zionism.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016
For her sonne William perished by shipwrack, and her daughter Matild was neuer voyd of great vexations.
From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John
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