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Especially when businesses and households already are chafing under the costs of the transition to date.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

It’s no wonder that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of his own party, are chafing at it.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2022

In the meantime, Sri Lankans are chafing at the import restrictions that are slowing activity in various industries.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021

Governors of both parties also are chafing at the added cost of the Medicaid expansion, as states will begin to pay a fractional share of the expense in 2016.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2011

Though I fear—from the hands that are chafing the hilt,     And the hints you give obscurely.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor