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The oil blockade has aggravated the country's worst economic and energy crisis in decades, leading to warnings of a humanitarian disaster.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

What has aggravated it, she says, is the legal risk of being deemed unpatriotic.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024

Among Arab American leaders, news of Manning’s parole has aggravated the painful wound of Odeh’s still unsolved death, and for some, has reinforced a belief that the American judicial system let them down.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023

The tone of Lopez’s talk has aggravated Taylor to the point that a police officer was positioned between them when they posed for pictures at their press conference Thursday.

From Washington Times • Jun. 9, 2023

But how any affection from without can metamorphose itself into perception or will, the materialist has hitherto left, not only as incomprehensible as he found it, but has aggravated it into a comprehensible absurdity.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor