inflamed

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Gulf states’ concerns were inflamed last month when Trump and top U.S. military officials shrugged off Iranian attacks on shipping and a strategic U.A.E. oil port.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The moves inflamed concerns the network's leadership would undermine independent journalism at the US's longest-running and highest-rated news programme.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

The water shortages have inflamed tensions between the upper basin states: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, and the lower basin states: Arizona, California and Nevada.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

In this process, harmful bacteria such as Porphyromonas gingivalis often regain dominance quickly because they thrive in inflamed gum tissue.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

Now he was down with a fever, and the wound in the face was inflamed.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara