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Broadside writer Kristine Gill talks to employees with disabilities about how working from home has leveled the playing field yet exacerbated certain challenges.

From Fortune

“Public banks are uniquely able to address the economic inequality and structural racism exacerbated by the banking industry’s discriminatory policies and predatory practices,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement.

From Vox

Those sentiments have been exacerbated this year with the global pandemic and the racial justice protests, young voters said.

For weeks this spring, workers across the country waited to receive benefits, a problem that was exacerbated by the confusion states had in setting up the new PUA program.

Additional delays, they said, “will only exacerbate the burdens” that those along the alignment have faced since construction started in 2017.

Question them, and you are colluding in exacerbating the awful effects of their trauma.

Exacerbating this is the fact that many doctors caring for women at Planned Parenthood often run private practices as well.

Both politicians and the media, by exaggerating the claims of only certain studies, are exacerbating the problem.

But it is not necessarily lack of money alone that is exacerbating the problem.

But how exacerbating anarchy in Libya and highlighting the power of the gun over politics serves U.S. interests remains unclear.

He lives with Lady Holland, and amuses himself by exacerbating her fears of illness and death.

The influence of menstruation in exacerbating acne has been called in question, but it seems to be well established.

It had come to her, an intolerably pathetic messenger and accuser, out of the exacerbating frowsiness of the Cedars.

Indeed his manner had always been most irritating and exacerbating to Arrelsford.

Her trouble, though of a kind proverbially the most hardening and exacerbating, had an entirely contrary tendency on her.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exacerbating, such as: annoy, aggravate, worsen, heighten, irritate, and inflame.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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