exacerbates

In 2022, a Times investigation found that California’s massive illegal marijuana market pushes legal growers toward financial ruin, exacerbates community violence, causes massive amounts of environmental degradation and forces laborers to toil in squalid and often dangerous conditions.

The pressure of fame and an unrelenting schedule “only exacerbates these trauma-related demons and leads to episodes of impulsive destructivity.”

Artificial turf exacerbates the effects of climate change.

But the unregulated nature of these platforms leverages and exacerbates some of the worst aspects of adolescence.

"For me it's been a bit less than a year but that probably exacerbates how busy it's been," he said.