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"You can use this knowledge to help bedridden patients. They also experience constipation and likely also have increased protein fermentation that may aggravate health conditions," concludes Lars Ove Dragsted, senior author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

But he uses Lake Ontario in conversation to avoid confusion, only employing “Lake America” when he wants to aggravate people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Holiday lets "can generate important economic and social benefits, especially for households struggling to make ends meet" but "they may also aggravate housing demand pressures in some constrained local housing markets," the EU draft read.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

If inhaled at high levels, these fumes can aggravate a person’s lungs, causing coughing, wheezing and chest tightness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Although aggravate is widely used to mean “vex” or “annoy,” sticklers find this irritating. ago/since.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

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

Or, if not that, he aggravates an existing tendency to rebrand the furthering of stereotypes and dangerous misinformation as “a difference of opinion.”

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2024

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

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

Plummeting share prices for the Korean memory chip makers were aggravated by a drop in chip stocks in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

That helps explain why voters might be aggravated and still surprised when they see, for example, a $5 price tag on a gallon of milk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Det Ch Supt Alison Hurst, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing for the West Midlands, said Webster had been investigated previously for racially aggravated offences and thanked BBC Wales for bringing him to their attention again.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

He later served time in prison, pleading guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and other charges, but President Donald Trump commuted his sentence in October 2025.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

I tried not to sound aggravated about it.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

This breach of the order imposed on his work was an "aggravating" feature, the tribunal ruled, to already "significant" errors in surgery and post-op care, the hearing was told.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

He’s been throwing weighted plyo balls to keep his arm strength up without aggravating his knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

If central banks cut interest rates to boost growth during a period of stagflation they run the risk of further aggravating inflation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Not only that, but air-conditioning is often criticised by environmentalists for aggravating climate change.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

"See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me."

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins