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exacerbating

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Exacerbating investors’ action bias wouldn’t be so dangerous to your wealth if investing was a pursuit in which doing something — anything — is better than doing nothing.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Exacerbating those concerns is a new battery storage site proposed in an unincorporated part of Santa Cruz County near Watsonville.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

Exacerbating the reef's plight are unusually warm seas experienced over the summer, which fuelled widespread coral bleaching across the Caribbean.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2023

Exacerbating problems posed by a diminished river flow is sea level rise.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

Exacerbating these conflicts were tensions among the subject peoples of the Romanov, Hapsburg and Ottoman empires.

From Century of Light by Baha'i International Community