Example Sentences

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One thing that vexes customers and employees are the expiration dates, which can vary from one week to a month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

It is this uncertainty that vexes political pundits and campaign strategists alike.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

It vexes opponents and forces them into bad looks.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

Regarding the Dec. 4 Metro article “Metro’s focus on evasion vexes kids”:

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

This does seem a very plausible explanation the more I think about it; for it is true, nothing vexes me more these days than to hear this sort of nonsense being repeated.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro