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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
antagonize .
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Examples
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Smug and arrogant as this know-it-all appears at a crime scene Providence, R.I., pretending to be Philadelphia, she antagonizes local detectives John Carroll Lynch and Sonja Sohn with Sherlock-ian observations followed by lines like, Don't believe everything you've heard about me.
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Easily irritated and quickly frustrated, LaJoy considers himself "a life-giver," but he's a bully who antagonizes the Park Service at public meetings, pokes legal sticks into its restoration plans and resorts to acts of sabotage that spin out of control like a PETA version of "Survivor."
T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel 2011
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Leaving aside whether teaching unions are on the whole good or bad (I happen to think they are good), I wonder if a better question is whether education reform that antagonizes teachers is ever going to be productive.
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Apparently, Carter was brought to the FBI's attention for a series of YouTube videos he made in 2008 in which he antagonizes the congressman, along with several others: State Senator Rickey Hendon; former Chicago Public Schools CEO and current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; and the late Michael Scott, former president of the schools who committed suicide amidst investigations of misconduct in November of 2009.
West Side Activist Reportedly Questioned In Danny Davis Threat Will Guzzardi 2011
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Leaving aside whether teaching unions are on the whole good or bad (I happen to think they are good), I wonder if a better question is whether education reform that antagonizes teachers is ever going to be productive.
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Easily irritated and quickly frustrated, LaJoy considers himself "a life-giver," but he's a bully who antagonizes the Park Service at public meetings, pokes legal sticks into its restoration plans and resorts to acts of sabotage that spin out of control like a PETA version of "Survivor."
T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel 2011
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An imidazobenzodiazepine derivative, flumazenil antagonizes the actions of benzodiazepines on the CNS.
Flumanazil 2010
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He's worried that the issue so antagonizes unions that it could derail the rest of his legislative agenda.
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Instead of compromising, instead of lengthening its lease of life by conciliation and by removal of some of the harsher oppressions of the working-class, it antagonizes the working-class, drives the working-class into revolution.
Revolution 2010
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Apparently, Carter was brought to the FBI's attention for a series of YouTube videos he made in 2008 in which he antagonizes the congressman, along with several others: State Senator Rickey Hendon; former Chicago Public Schools CEO and current Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; and the late Michael Scott, former president of the schools who committed suicide amidst investigations of misconduct in November of 2009.
West Side Activist Reportedly Questioned In Danny Davis Threat Will Guzzardi 2011
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