irritability
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It also fueled his irritability and erratic behavior, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Kids under the age of 10 with a high amount of daily screen time face significant developmental repercussions like irritability, a lack of executive functioning, poor sleep, and, critically, poor social and emotional competence.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Other symptoms listed in the court filing include "excessive fatigue and irritability".
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
Clinicians call this the “prescribing cascade”: An antidepressant causes insomnia, so a sleep aid is added; a stimulant causes irritability, so a mood stabilizer follows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
He could feel Sekai’s irritability at not being allowed to nap.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
"The embryon" must "be supposed to be a living filament, which acquires or makes new parts, with new irritabilities as it advances in its growth."
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel
The extremities of other canals have been shewn to possess correspondent sensibilities, or irritabilities, as the two ends of the urethra, and of the common gall-duct.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The dim stir of chemical atoms towards the axes of a crystal form, the trance-like life of plants, the animal troubled by strange irritabilities, are stages which anticipate consciousness.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
The little irritabilities which degrade humanity only prolong their mischievous existence, while the surface of life stagnates in calm.
From Blind Love by Collins, Wilkie
