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A team of lab assistants spent months watching their reactions, coding facial expressions and scoring them against nine emotional behaviors: anger, disgust, happiness/amusement, contempt, sadness, embarrassment, fear, surprise and confusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Lee’s film is motivated less by anger and more by curiosity, compassion and a general confusion, as no one quite knows how to behave or feel or just be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Warsh is "either going to completely disappoint the markets, or he runs the risk that he's going to start to anger Donald Trump", said David Wessel, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
There has been much anger in recent years about how much water some of the larger data centres consume in trying to keep the equipment cool.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
I had tried to block it out of my mind all week—had thought that if I kept quiet everything would die down, including Ba’s anger.
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
Her response, “What’s our lesson here?,” angers him, and he tries to snatch her phone.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
It is a decision which still angers Liverpool fans.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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
And with all these angers there was an added agony when hopes for an end to the war were crushed as the year progressed.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
In August 2023, angered by Echard’s persistent doubts, Owens raised the stakes and filed a paternity petition in family court in Arizona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The decision angered the Israeli government, which announced several countermeasures, including ordering the closure of the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
That doesn’t mean you can’t be totally angered by them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two, angered fans earlier this year when it decided not to make any physical copies available.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
All of it, the cancer, the death—all of it angered him and he wanted nothing now but to get the Frog underway and sail from this spot.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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
As recently as a year ago, they said, such a deal would have been unthinkable, because companies were nervous about angering Nvidia’s Huang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
At last year’s COP30 in Brazil, about 80 countries backed a road map to phase out oil, gas and coal, but it was dropped from the final document for lack of consensus, angering many delegates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026
And this anxiety to keep his father from angering her was wearisome to him and it was another thing to make of his love a burden to him.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
