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A aggravate – Some have argued that this word should not be used in the sense of "to annoy" or "to oppress", but only to mean "to make worse". According to AHDI, the use of "aggravate" as "annoy" occurs in English as far back as the 17th century. In Latin, from which the word was borrowed, both meanings were used. Sixty-eight percent of AHD4's usage panel approves of its use in "It's the ...
A scene of rabbis engaging in debate in Carl Schleicher's painting A controversy from the Talmud, 19th century.. Controversy (UK: / k ə n ˈ t r ɒ v ə r s i /, US: / ˈ k ɒ n t r ə v ɜː r s i /) [1] [2] is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view.
This is a list of Wikipedia articles deemed controversial because they are constantly re-edited in a circular manner, or are otherwise the focus of edit warring or article sanctions.
Harrison Butker is opening up publicly for the first time about the controversial commencement speech he gave at Benedictine College, a small Catholic liberal college in Kansas.. During his speech ...
To a lesser extent, and more controversially among the groups referred to, many racial, ethnic, and class terms have been reappropriated: Baster, the name is derived from bastaard, the Dutch word for "bastard". They are a Southern African ethnic group descended from White European men and Black African women.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
COMMENT: Emily Armstrong’s induction into the nu-metal band has been rocked by controversy over her previous support of now-convicted rapist Danny Masterson – for which she has since apologised.
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system used between 1998 and 2013 that replaced the previously similarly more controversial Bowl Coalition and Bowl Alliance that was used between 1992 and 1997 and was replaced by the College Football Playoff in 2014.