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  • noun Plural form of exasperation.

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Examples

  • Robert Baer, whose CIA exploits and exasperations in the Middle East were immortalized in the 2005 George Clooney thriller "Syriana", has a new role: conjugal co-author.

    Couples, CIA-style 2011

  • To those of us who like a little statistics with our football, one of the great exasperations of the NFL is that there's no simple way to measure the performance of one of the game's most integral units, the offensive line.

    The Mysteries of the Offensive Line Reed Albergotti 2011

  • • Covert pairings: Stories from a clandestine couple: Robert Baer, whose CIA exploits and exasperations in the Middle East were immortalized in the 2005 George Clooney thriller "Syriana", has a new role: conjugal co-author.

    Troops have 10 more days to get stop loss benefits 2011

  • And ancient allies became present enemies-with the help of the Endarkened and their agents-insulated, isolated, each in his own petty world, each nursing exasperations and minor grievances to the exclusion of intelligence and common sense, each combating problems he was certain were his and his alone and were the most important and terrible difficulties in the universe.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • She invoked her exasperations (ph) are the same as ours.

    CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2009 2009

  • It is in the strident lyrics Ibsen wrote between 1857 and 1863 that we can best read the record of his mind, and share its exasperations, and wonder at its elasticity.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • They exchange enthusiasms (Gertrude Jekyll; the earliest crocus) and intimate exasperations: the cruelty of an untimely freeze, bulb-scrounging mice and the ravages of age.

    Gardens: Dig Deep 2008

  • Some basic initial signs would be sleeping disarrays, exasperations, frequent friends change etc.

    Schizophrenia - only symptoms can be treated 2008

  • It is in the strident lyrics Ibsen wrote between 1857 and 1863 that we can best read the record of his mind, and share its exasperations, and wonder at its elasticity.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Some basic initial signs would be sleeping disarrays, exasperations, frequent friends change etc.

    Schizophrenia - only symptoms can be treated 2008

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