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That will aggravate a budget deficit that already exceeded 6% of gross domestic product last year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

McIlroy is confident he would not aggravate the injury were he to play here this week.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

And people do leave, including the ones Lemon seems to aggravate the most.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

This heightened sensitivity can aggravate high blood pressure, diabetes and other chronic illnesses as well as raise the risks of accidents, falls and fractures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

“Your father’s a little tired tonight. Maybe you’d better go over to a friend’s house to do your homework? I mean he’s worked hard, and I don’t think we should aggravate him, do you?”

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

NOx is a smog-forming pollutant that aggravates respiratory illnesses, especially asthma, forms acid rain and contributes to nutrient pollution in coastal waters.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

The document asks all the right questions and reaches all the wrong conclusions—the way a doctor might correctly identify symptoms and then prescribe a remedy that aggravates the disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Turning our heads toward the future aggravates the whiplash induced by rapid change.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

Padgett prays daily to help him manage the pain of his third bout of cancer and the multiple herniated disks that sleeping on the ground aggravates.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

This aggravates his father no end, and several other adults have made nasty remarks about it too.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

It said that Rhodes "thoroughly warranted a long minimum term", but that aspects of the case should have further aggravated the sentence.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The break from pitching could also benefit his left knee, a problem that seems to have been aggravated by pitching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

Financial Supervisory Service Gov. Lee Chan-jin expressed sorrow at failing to halt the launch of single-stock leveraged ETFs in May, saying it might have aggravated market swings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

The aggravated assault statute under which she was charged exempts situations in which displaying a firearm is “reasonably necessary” for self-defense.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

Today the FBI’s juvenile violent-crime index, which measures arrests for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, is lower than it was in 1980, and that’s true across racial lines.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

He said Phelan's actions were a "joint enterprise with others" which was a "serious aggravating factor".

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Midtown felt like a party, even as the Secret Service closed off chunks of 7th and 8th avenue and warned of aggravating security lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

It specified 10 aggravating factors, the presence of which would allow a jury to return a death sentence in the belief that such “guided discretion” would pass constitutional muster.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

He said the international community needed to do more to prevent foreign trawlers operating illegally in the region, aggravating locals.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

The lined, painstaking, aggravating face of the coroner, the gold pince-nez on his nose.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier