The decision by Aaron Turner, Kuminga’s agent, to go on a media tour in recent weeks while negotiating publicly in hopes of landing a better offer for Kuminga, irritated some with the organization, according to league sources.
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Nick Friedell,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
And the web designer from South Dakota certainly must have irritated her former final two ally Vince Panaro on her way out of the Big Brother house.
Jim Kovalsky, the president of a nonprofit called the Florida East Coast Railway Society, appeared exasperated in a local-TV interview last year.
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Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
Then people get exasperated, start talking about judicial supremacy, and try to chop the Court off at its knees by seeking traditional amendment instead.
Many Idaho liberals of all ages were especially affronted by the fact that the Israeli government paid for the lawmakers’ travel, said Olivia Luna, the president of Idaho’s Babe Vote, who signed the letter as an individual calling for Rubel’s resignation.
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Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
30 Sep. 2025
Thinking about it that way invests meaning in an anecdote Norris related about a member of the copy department so affronted by something a colleague had done that she was inspired to pick up an object and hurl it in that colleague’s general direction.
These payments, which are tax-free, are intended for veterans whose disabilities are connected to illnesses, injuries, or events that developed or were aggravated during active duty.
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Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
Smith missed last week’s win over NC State and aggravated his calf strain in the first quarter against Boise State.
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