frustrate

That may frustrate reformers, but it’s democracy working as designed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Final delivery can still frustrate, but he has become Scotland's chief creative force.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

They raise costs, squeeze margins, and frustrate managers.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026

“There’s immense amount of pressure, and sometimes that pressure can get you and frustrate you in different ways,” said Clark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

"You know what I'm talking about. The ways I frustrate you. The way you look to your father for reassurance when you can't stand my questions."

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

It’s also what frustrates his critics, who suggest he’s taking less sophisticated, everyday investors for a ride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Angelenos don’t mind haters — it’s the type of city that frustrates residents even on its best days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

The process -- and the sheer size of the state of 40 million people -- means California is always slow to finalize results, a fact that frustrates voters of all stripes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

What frustrates him is how long they've been there.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

And as these meetings were the only opportunity Marco was given to see his instructor, the continued absence frustrates him.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

In a frustrated tone, Reddington responded: "I don't care."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Munira Mustaffa, a Malaysia-based counterterrorism and extremism expert, said they were "frustrated signalling" by insurgents intended to "get the government to return to the table".

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Doctors are frustrated because they are bogged down with patients.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

ABC had long been frustrated that KDNL, unlike its other major-market affiliates, didn’t produce its own local news programming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Soviet women “were frustrated by contradictory messages: become aviators, but not in the highest levels of the military,” said Adrienne Marie Harris in her PhD thesis about women soldiers in the Soviet Union.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Brian Schaer, 43, a limestone miner from southern Iowa, sums up the inchoate resentment: “It’s frustrating when you don’t get your stuff going.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

But the most frustrating thing for Grace, and why she contacted BBC Your Voice, is because she does not feel medical experts recognise that teenagers and adolescents can suffer from endometriosis.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Whether it’s my first year or 10th year with a team, I think it’d be frustrating regardless,” Tucker said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

That’s not an uncommon phenomenon, especially when working with a big, financially successful, well-loved property, but it is frustrating.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

It is frustrating that I cannot talk back.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga