irritate

"That happens when you don't completely kill the bacteria but merely irritate them," Mons says.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

The justices have already dealt with the contraceptive mandate and the Little Sisters twice, and this latest challenge seems designed to irritate them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

Is there one you bought specifically to irritate Don Henley?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025

For more complicated products or ones with ingredients that can irritate the skin if they're not formulated correctly, such as retinols or vitamin C, Dr Bhate recommends sticking to more specialised brands.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

Twice in a minute she’s managed to irritate me.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

‘How do you come up with things to write about?” a young George Will once asked William F. Buckley Jr. That’s easy, said the National Review founder, “the world irritates me three times a week.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Traditional oral iron supplements can help, but they often leave behind unabsorbed iron that irritates the digestive tract and triggers inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025

What irritates him is the rhetoric from those who leave, that the Hong Kong they knew has died.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

It irritates him to think of the abundant resources that a Nazi had at hand to do this sort of work.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

“That’s what irritates me the most. If East River is so great, why were they leaving?”

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Some purist footballers are particularly irritated by a lack of grass fields, as they offer a different playing experience to the artificial turf or concrete surfaces most common in New York.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

He said Lavrynovych had seemed "very irritated" and "kept talking about money", particularly an employer who had not paid him for two months.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Rules around the promotion irritated customers and servers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Elon Musk became visibly irritated on the witness stand Wednesday as an attorney for OpenAI questioned whether the billionaire backed off his financial commitment to the startup in its early years.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

As irritated as I was by all this, deep down I was beginning to grasp what my parents already knew: no matter which path I chose, I'd be giving up something.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

That WWE ring sees unexpected action late Sunday afternoon, while MMA fighter and professional annoying person Logan Paul is taping an especially irritating episode of his Impaulsive podcast.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

For nearly 60 years, “60 Minutes” has stood apart because of its stubborn independence and commitment to irritating powerful people.

From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026

The chemical is irritating to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes in humans, and can cause respiratory and neurological symptoms with exposure, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Both substances have similarly irritating effects, despite different ingredients.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Woo backflips into the water with irritating grace, still holding the dashiki as he plunges downward.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer