exasperate
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Held in a stifling courtroom during the peak of summer, the proceedings involved day after day of contentious confrontation as the couple sought to exasperate Li Mien, the presiding judge, at every opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 28, 2026
To further exasperate the lingering injury bug, Reaves left the game after the first half because of left calf soreness.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 26, 2025
The issues exasperate many of the remaining businesses.
From Seattle Times β Jan. 23, 2024
However, quite how the hosts did not manage to win will mystify and exasperate the new man at the helm.
From BBC β Oct. 18, 2022
He kicked, pounded, twisted, pushed, using his lack of size to confound and exasperate Elisha, whose damp fists, joined at the small of John’s back, soon slipped.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
What further exasperates the residents of the complex is that there is a GP surgery less than 100m from their building.
From BBC β Jun. 11, 2024
Norma López, a 56-year-old homemaker, has a post leaning just feet away from her balcony in Loiza, and it exasperates her every time she sees it.
From Seattle Times β Sep. 18, 2022
Emotions run high in Venice, the Italian island city that fascinates visitors even as it exasperates the dwindling band of local inhabitants.
From The Guardian β Jul. 22, 2017
The two sides have their differences — analysts say Suu Kyi does not want to be thought of as a puppet of the West, and she exasperates U.S. officials with her occasionally imperious manner.
From Washington Post β Nov. 12, 2015
She exasperates him, as she does everyone who roots for her success, but he loves her mind and courage.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
This week, exasperated residents blocked the highway linking Tachira state to Barinas at night, banging pots and pans and honking horns in protest.
From Barron's β Sep. 12, 2026
Reporters in the room could not hear the exchange, but the BBC saw exasperated facial expressions and gestures from Clancy's lawyer.
From BBC β Sep. 4, 2026
At the same time, he’s exasperated by the endless debates on how to award them.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 25, 2026
Some see a dark irony: Five years ago, an exasperated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bemoaned that a corrupt customs regime had allowed organized crime to take over land and maritime ports of entry.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 3, 2026
“Dreh dich um!” the Hessian repeated, clearly exasperated.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.
From Barron's β Apr. 14, 2026
Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 30, 2025
At some forecourts in Bamako, motorists are met by a note bearing three, exasperating words - "no fuel today".
From BBC β Nov. 11, 2025
That included a 60-yard touchdown to Johnston, who scored twice against the Chiefs and is redefining his onetime reputation for exasperating drops.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 16, 2025
His parents call him precocious; I looked it up, and it does not mean the personification of an earsplitting, nerve-jangling, head-pounding, exasperating plague that makes you long for deportation from your own country.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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