- present tense form of irritate (3rd person singular).
irritates
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At the same time, nothing irritates him more than when a fellow old-timer “starts bemoaning the state of the industry and how things used to be,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
But when it goes away, so do our nightly doses of Colbert’s affable clowning, the kind that irritates thin-skinned despots in a way other comics can’t quite match.
From Salon ● May 21, 2026
"It irritates the life out of me," she says.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
‘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
It irritates her that Amma and I can chat in a language she doesn't understand, though Amma's told her we're not saying anything about her.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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