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Since taking the helm of the FTC, however, Ms. Khan has antagonized her colleagues which has helped drum up new congressional oversight.

From Washington Times • Jun. 20, 2023

But along the way, he has antagonized design enthusiasts, neighborhood and tenant activists, city commissioners and some politicians.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2022

With a lawyer’s courtroom vigor, perhaps derived from his prior career as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-contra investigation, Mr. Roth has antagonized many autocrats.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022

Believing her son is being shortchanged, Palma repeatedly has antagonized doctors and caregivers over what she sees as too little effort at rehabilitation — admitting to sometimes feeling “very hostile and desperate.”

From Salon • May 30, 2018

To gather the beneficiaries of their generosity together and take stock, as it were, of the investments, the dividends of which are to be realized wholly in the future life, has antagonized the self-respecting poor.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Betts, Lillian William