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“That’s baseball — 162 games,” said Boone, who insisted that neither that inning nor the night as a whole were vexing.

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

Something less than a hundred years ago, similar questions were vexing the American public.

From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Doren, Alice B. Van

In another case a woman rushed into the street, alternately objurgating and pleading with the spirits, who, she said, were vexing her child which had convulsions. 

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.

In another case I saw a woman who rushed into the street objurgating the spirits, and in the next breath humbly supplicating them, who, she said, were vexing her child that was lying in convulsions.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

At last he came to a town where the rats were vexing the people very much.

From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill