aggravation

That agreement expired last week, opening the door for further aggravation from the two investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Goals, aggravation, a red card that infuriated the visitors and opened a door for the hosts, a toe-to-toe fight that went to the wire.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

The charges had been said to have had a connection with serious organised crime, but this aggravation was deleted by prosecutors at the end of the evidence.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

Kathy Cady, who served as his victims’ rights attorney, is now the head of Hochman’s Bureau of Victims’ Services, another point of aggravation for the relatives fighting for the brothers release.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

She is quieter than usual, with an air of injured aggravation.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

There, among the seamstresses in training, Duncan met other welfare mothers, equally desperate, and recognized the stinginess, indifference and bureaucratic aggravations she’d been suffering in isolation were part of a larger system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Such are the occasional aggravations and annoyances that bedevil the tony section of Los Angeles that Harris calls home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

"A number of factors have also been added to the list of aggravations, while sentencing ranges have been increased for certain offences."

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2023

But two aggravations of the present — inflation and supply-chain pressures — are encroaching at concession stands that have long sold sandwiches and sweets to the well-heeled for rock-bottom prices.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

We didn’t fight often, and when we did, it was typically over petty things, a string of pent-up aggravations that surfaced usually when one or both of us got overly fatigued or stressed.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama