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• To make matters worse, wages and home prices aren’t growing at the same pace.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2023
• To make matters worse, our only way out was a four-mile hike down the hill.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• To make matters worse, the game is now in a lightning delay.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• And to make matters worse, Ham wouldn’t have LeBron James.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• The helmet and goggles only make matters worse, trapping heat on the head and the eyes.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 21 June 2024
• The best thing Congress could do now is decline to make matters worse.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• Now the two crises are combining to make matters worse.
  — Carine Hajjar, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
• To make matters worse, Moore’s video wasn’t even focused on the full clip of what Blessing Rose said.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2023
• To make matters worse, Bell is still owed more than $8 million dollars the rest of the season.
  — Craig Mish, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
• But a soft goal by Špunar off the stick of Pacheco, shorthanded to make matters worse, was the 1 in the Rockets’ column.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
• To make matters worse, the municipal plows have come through and cleared the streets of eight inches of snow.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• To make matters worse, this is a quarterback draft, and there isn’t anything close to a slam dunk.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• To make matters worse, Brady picked up a 15-yard penalty for tripping Woolen after the pick.
  — Analis Bailey, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
• To make matters worse, the odds of an imminent turnaround for the EV maker don’t look good.
  — Esha Dey, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
• To make matters worse, he has again been cited for having rats in his building.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 June 2024
• To make matters worse, the supply chain had finally opened up.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
• To make matters worse, the mill was mated to a two-speed automatic.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Dec. 2022
• And in cities like Phoenix and Tucson, the urban heat island effect will make matters worse.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2023
• To make matters worse, the Sox are again without Chris Sale, whose left pinky broke when he was struck in the hand with a comebacker Sunday.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022
• To make matters worse, Shaw's Plumbing signs were harder to remove than most.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
• To make matters worse, Messi took to the field in Japan just a few days later, sparking a huge outcry in China.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Feb. 2024
• To make matters worse, a new and powerful rival, who is in love with Purva, enters the fray.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• To make matters worse, any plastic film that gets into the line clogs the machinery, which means workers have to cut it out.
  — Cynthia Sewell, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024
• To make matters worse, Eliassen said, the type of breast tumors that form before menopause tend to be harder to treat and more aggressive.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• To make matters worse, Fitzpatrick was aligned outside, which should have taken Burrow off the corner route from the start.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
• To make matters worse, Kate had an electric moment with a handsome stranger on a bus, but never got his name and now has no way to find him.
  — Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
• To make matters worse, the driver was never charged or even identified.
  — Deborah Horn, Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2022
• To make matters worse, news about the potential deal was already spreading.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• To make matters worse, the hurricane struck after Parmelee and his wife had just finished rebuilding their back porch, which was destroyed last year during Idalia.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024
• To make matters worse, postwar rationing and a dwindling supply of ingredients meant recipes shrank and were further simplified.
  — David Farley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024