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  • Add that to the unknown number of kids who face abuse or neglect but somehow avoid the foster care system, and you have an epidemic—one that current policies exacerbate.†  (source)
  • The impact of such contact on human society would be divisive rather than uniting, and would exacerbate rather than mitigate the conflicts between different cultures.†  (source)
  • A doctor confirmed that he had disastrously exacerbated his war injury.†  (source)
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  • My inability to discern the obvious was exacerbated to some degree by the guide-client protocol.†  (source)
  • Aspirin was a gastric irritant, and it could exacerbate bleeding.†  (source)
  • Instead of exacerbating the issue, he invited Milton Security's CEO to lunch.†  (source)
  • I'm frightened, but I'm not sure what I'm afraid of, which just exacerbates the fear.†  (source)
  • To Xavier's mind, Lippy's hat was the final exacerbation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Her mother's death, the abuse, and the desperate circumstances all exacerbated Trina's emotional and mental health problems.†  (source)
  • Zeitoun knew not to exacerbate the situation, and assumed that when they were interviewed by a superior, everything would be explained.†  (source)
  • One wheel on his shopping cart wobbled noisily, louder in his imagination than in reality, exacerbating his headache.†  (source)
  • Faculty club interlocutions over "publish or perish" or how affirmative action exacerbates the conflict between the magnetic lecturers and the dogged scholars are not on Cedric's radar.†  (source)
  • His ordeal with the Amagiri exacerbated his back problems, and he has even endured surgery—to no avail.†  (source)
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