irritates

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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

That tension with boxing's old guard irritates Paul.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 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

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

That irritates me even more because I see the pity in her face.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes