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chafed

adjective as in inflamed

adjective as in raw

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To listen to the many Californians who have chafed at the state’s continued growth and opposed further development, you would think this reversal would solve all our problems.

Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at “woke doctrine” and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people.

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Charter, DirecTV and other distribution executives have chafed at Disney’s efforts to bypass distributors to offer its programming directly to consumers.

I didn’t mind the work, necessarily, but I chafed at how difficult my classmates made the task at hand.

But Ms. Buzbee chafed at Mr. Lewis’s plans to separate The Post’s newsroom into segments, according to two people familiar with her thinking, and the pair quickly reached an impasse.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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