as in irritableness
readiness to show annoyance or impatience
the librarian's well-known irritability makes students hesitant to ask questions
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Recent Examples of irritability
Going undiagnosed with sleep apnea doesn’t just mean dealing with more fatigue, irritability, and restless nights (though that’s reason enough, in our book, to seek out care).
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Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 June 2025
Mood changes like anxiety or irritability may appear.
—Nawab John Dar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
The condition can cause symptoms like exhaustion, irritability, unintentional weight loss, hand tremors, and skin discoloration, according to the Mayo Clinic.
About 1 percent of Americans have Graves' disease, according to Yale Medicine.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 June 2025
This can cause sweating, hand tremors, or irritability.
—Janelle McSwiggin, Health, 14 June 2025
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Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 June 2025
Mood changes like anxiety or irritability may appear.
—Nawab John Dar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
The condition can cause symptoms like exhaustion, irritability, unintentional weight loss, hand tremors, and skin discoloration, according to the Mayo Clinic.
About 1 percent of Americans have Graves' disease, according to Yale Medicine.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 June 2025
This can cause sweating, hand tremors, or irritability.
—Janelle McSwiggin, Health, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irritability
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According to her July 2025 report to the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese claimed the U.S. may be ‘liable for the international crime of aggression’ for President Trump's strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
9 July 2025
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Rotating Carriers To Multiple Hotspots USS Nimitz is now operating in the Red Sea to deter further aggression from Iran and its regional proxies.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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Though Trump is backing away from Putin in public, he’s never specifically projected anger about the paused weapons for Ukraine.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
9 July 2025
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His work showed that emotions like anger, fear, joy, and sadness appear on our faces in the same way across cultures.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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While investors should remain aware of the substantial debt and historical sensitivity to market downturns, the long-term prospects for Jazz Pharmaceuticals seem positive for those with a 3-5 year investment horizon.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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The recent Spanish fraud scheme is currently under investigation by Spain’s National Court continues, underscoring persistent challenges and sensitivities surrounding Sephardic citizenship laws across Iberia.—
Orge Castellano,
Sun Sentinel,
7 July 2025
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For all his bombast online, for instance, Marcus has said that today’s chatbots are a legitimate breakthrough, just far from the breakthrough; for all of Altman’s petulance, OpenAI’s latest large reasoning models rely on new approaches not so dissimilar from Marcus’s own, decades-old ideas.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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That love affair with Moss was the foundation and the bulldozer to Culture Club, at times keeping George grounded and at others sparking the singer's legendary petulance.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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But these weaknesses stem largely from underfunding and political hostility – not from any intrinsic flaw in the model.—
Sumit Agarwal,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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In our experience we were met with outright hostility for our Christian beliefs.—
BJ,
Denver Post,
3 July 2025
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Claiming persecution becomes more believable when it is coupled with the righteous indignation of the wronged.—
Lubna Zeidan,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Some Trump allies have expressed skepticism — and at times outright indignation — at the idea of the U.S. involved in another conflict in the Middle East, while others have offered wholehearted support.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
18 June 2025
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“Irritability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irritability. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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