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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miffing
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Sometimes, rage bait can be relatively harmless – a recipe that contains disgusting food combinations or someone annoying their pet, partner or sibling.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
1 Dec. 2025 -
But what’s been annoying me even more is that these women should have been trained by producers to start recording on their own cell phones if drama starts to unfold after cameras go down.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2025
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Passive aggression can be irritating.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Is the air in your home feeling stuffy, dusty, or irritating?—
Toni Sutton,
PEOPLE,
19 Jan. 2026
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But in other parts of the city the presence of ICE was aggravating existing antipathy for local law enforcement.—
Ruby Cramer,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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Reaves is approaching the four-week point after aggravating his calf injury on Christmas Day.—
Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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For political wives, the inauguration coat is an agenda-setter – the first statement on how someone who may or may not have aspired to be a public symbol will navigate the always-tricky, often exasperating act of using clothes to elucidate or complement her husband’s administration.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
2 Jan. 2026
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That such luxury items are in supply, but often food or medicine are still scarce, is exasperating aid workers and Palestinians.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
26 Dec. 2025
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Gambling addiction is, in some sense, also especially vexing to treat.—
Jasper Craven,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Trump proved to be a vexing ideological lodestar—aggressively anti-intellectual in his attitudes and consistently inconsistent in his views.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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Who is this dude, and is Sanders worried about offending him?—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2026
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The offending vehicle fled in an unknown direction Unless otherwise noted, no arrests were made in the above incidents.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2026
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Or have all of his brain cells corroded away after years of huffing his own scent?—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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Through Blazy’s gaze, what looks outlandish is often revealed to be truer to itself than, for instance, the nearby tourist restaurants with candles burning down over beef bourguignon and accordions huffing in the corner.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
14 Oct. 2025
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Officials’ insistence that citizens who record agents are provoking violent retribution is a justification for what is becoming a very literal war on truth.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
25 Jan. 2026
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In the main event of SmackDown, Trick Williams defeated Damian Priest by DQ after provoking Sami Zayn.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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