irritation
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The bloom was also linked to physical health problems including respiratory irritation and asthma.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
One party figure said she would do well to remember her own irritation at Alex Salmond's backseat driving when she replaced him at the top of the party.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I did that yesterday, when I was a kid,” he sings over hectic guitar strums, and his trilling digital falsetto, warped to maximize irritation, makes clear that those days are far behind him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The toxic bacteria which can cause skin irritation and sickness in people and animals who come into contact with it, has become an unwelcome feature of recent summers.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
There’s the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
But escape from the irritations of that companionship seems a still bleaker prospect—and an impossibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
About two hours later, it said rounds were fired nearby that saw smoke enter the camp, causing 15 peacekeepers to suffer skin irritations and gastrointestinal reactions.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
Each seemingly simple task is not just saddled with procedural irritations — forms to fill out, appointments to attend, banal questions to answer — but with fear.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
If we don’t, we will — given enough time, irritations, and the wrong figure asking us how we’re doing at the right moment.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
You are, as they say, stuck with it and have leisure to feel all its peculiar irritations and discomforts.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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