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irritability

[ir-i-tuh-bil-i-tee] / ˌɪr ɪ təˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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"Now, what's going into phase III studies is a non-antipsychotic for irritability in autism. It's completely different."

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

In turn, this can cause poor sleep, irritability and decision fatigue, she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

He described attempting the keto diet as a “near-psychotic event” brought on by sugar withdrawal, joking that giving someone in his position that much irritability could have geopolitical consequences.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

It also fueled his irritability and erratic behavior, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The milkshake had dulled what was left of Michael’s irritability.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"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 Samuel Butler

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 Erasmus Darwin

I will answer—to keep my mind free, and unbiased by all paltry and personal irritabilities of praise or censure; to let my genius take its natural direction.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham

His sudden access to wealth, far from allaying the irritabilities of his nature, had increased and exaggerated them all.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

In spasmodic affections of various kinds, in asthma, in periodic headaches, in general restlessness and muscular irritabilities its good effects are often signal.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz


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