Example Sentences

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Their delay was exacerbating shortages of feed afflicting livestock producers in the United States.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2024

“We cannot disengage despite the challenges,” the U.N. chief said and also urged funding for aid operations, saying the ban was exacerbating already low levels of funding.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023

It has since become clearer that many companies were meanwhile rebuilding their margins on price hikes in a way that was exacerbating inflation - something policymakers at the European Central Bank now acknowledge.

From Reuters • Apr. 4, 2023

More polemical was “Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster,” released in 1998, about how the city’s urban design was exacerbating fire and drought.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2022

It was a sickeningly aggrandizing clump that was exacerbating itself within her stomach; and it made her doubt the efficacy of the plan.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)