Think flying in spring water to a Caribbean island because a female client thought the local water irritated her scalp.
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Louis J. Esterhazy,
Footwear News,
7 Sep. 2025
In fact, the aliens take a back seat to the human interactions, which irritated some viewers eager to see actual aliens in a show about an extraterrestrial invasion.
On television, the film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert structured their show so that at any time at least one of them was likely to be exasperated, possibly with the other one.
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Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Even Yankee great Paul O’Neill, who was on the YES broadcast, was exasperated by Volpe’s decision.
Climate scientists have long been vexed by the disconnect between the dire warnings blared by their models and the restrained policies enacted by world leaders.
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Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
My suggestions are fraught with political landmines that have vexed commissioners dating back to Bowie Kuhn, when the MLBPA gained a hold in the 1960s.
Others were offended by the variety of items in the dish.
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Michael Nied,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
The novel, published to immediate controversy in India—an obscenity suit was filed over its portrayal of an intercaste romance—offended her Syrian Christian kin, who grumbled about misrepresentation.
His criminal history includes convictions for felony grand larceny, felony aggravated DUI with a child passenger less than 16 years old, identify theft, and retail theft.
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Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Jackson missed a month because of a toe injury in preseason, then re-aggravated it in the opening loss against the Colts.
In practice, that could mean a withdrawal of political cover for Israel's ongoing invasion of Gaza, which has provoked outrage among European and Arab nations as famine conditions spread.
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Gram Slattery,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
The moves provoked legal challenges over First Amendment rights.
—
Dan Gooding
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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