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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

In fact, the so-called positive attributes men are told to cultivate aggravate his woefulness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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

‘Maybe she’s like Ares. That guy can spark a fight just by walking into a crowded room. If Nike radiates competitive vibes or something, she could aggravate the whole Greek-Roman rivalry big-time.’

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

It wouldn't hurt if he weren't right—if I hadn't known somewhere that my weakness aggravates him.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

This bullpen session was a chance for Ohtani to test his knee, which before the injection seemed to be aggravated by pitching.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

It was not the first time either Briggs or Murphy had taken positions that aggravated members of their parties in legislatures that have taken sharp turns to the right.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026

In this case the delays were aggravated by the case having to be transferred from one jurisdiction to another.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Her expression was not as composed as when she visited us at the Merritt home; in fact, she seemed aggravated by something—probably the fact that I’d arrived late, although it had not been my fault.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 19 and faces up to 181 years to life in prison due to previous convictions and aggravating factors in the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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

“This whole thing is aggravating because there’s no place in America where you can just take it down the road,” said Terry White, Discovery’s retired orbital processing chief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Judge Huw Rees said a previous caution against Carter and the fact that substantial quantity of ammunition was found in conjunction with the banned weapon were aggravating factors.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

I also talked to Margot about Father and Mother, about how nice it could be here if they weren’t so aggravating.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank