anger
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The alleged killing risks rekindling tensions over the presence of the U.S. military on the Japanese island, where crimes committed by American servicemen have been a source of anger for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Abascal's eviction catalysed long-running anger about runaway housing costs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Protests are continuing across France as students take to the streets to voice their anger over school conditions.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Anthropic showed the religious leaders what the company called “emotional vectors,” or specific artificial neural-network prompts designed to simulate traits like love, fear and anger.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
My anger ran hot and cold—cold from wanting to freeze him out, but mostly hot with humiliation, rage, and frustration.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The wrinkle that angers buyers is that by event time, comparable replacement tickets on StubHub can cost significantly more than the customer originally paid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Perhaps what angers him most is that officers may never know the scale of what went on at Save A Paw.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
Her response, “What’s our lesson here?,” angers him, and he tries to snatch her phone.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
For a high-powered pharma chief, she’s remarkably in tune with how the average person feels, which is what angers Teddy so much when Michelle continuously asks for an honest conversation.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
Sometimes Mama worries, and other times she angers.
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
The movement in the lycees, attended by students aged 15 to 18 for their final three years of secondary education in France, has angered the government.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
He had angered viewers by declaring his love for all three of the finalists and left the show without a mate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
She's now applying for Universal Credit and has been left angered by the situation.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
That doesn’t mean you can’t be totally angered by them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The demand angered the United States, the largest aid donor, and it frustrated the monitoring techniques that the U.N.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
But angering the president in Turkey is not funny.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Every time the narrative comes close to truly condemning children’s access to devices, the movie pulls back in fear of isolating or angering the audience.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
The bishops, often nervous about angering the public at a time when church attendance continues its steady decline, have to think carefully about whether to challenge these celebrity priests.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
Such moves would push up global oil prices and risk angering Beijing, which has spent years trying to insulate itself from supply disruptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
“For someone so superstitious, you risk angering the gods by not attending. I imagine that an assassin would take more interest in the day of the dead.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
