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"adding to the distress" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation or event that makes a difficult experience worse or more troubling. For example: "The news of her husband's sudden illness was already difficult for her to cope with, but the mounting medical bills were adding to the distress."
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The delays are seen as adding to the distress of those onboard and damaging to the EU's credibility.
Ignorance about the condition in the female sex extends to professionals, adding to the distress it causes.
A severe shortage of nurses is adding to the distress, Ms. Meyer said, as new state regulations actually require adding nurses.
Health officials have likened the failure to breast-feed to the risk of smoking during pregnancy, adding to the distress and guilt suffered by these women.
The group said there was an urgent need for a review of the financial impact that recent changes to welfare have on people who have been bereaved, warning that the Government risked adding to the "distress" of grieving families.
He was referring to the hacking of the murder victim's phone after she was abducted but before her body was found, adding to the distress of her family and confusing the police investigation by deleting some messages to make room for more.
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"This undoubtedly added to the distress of families at an already very upsetting time for them.
Deep spending cuts that may accompany a deal would add to the distress.
"We condemn the publication of this video, which serves only to add to the distress of the men's families and friends," the spokesman told the British Press Association.
To make it easier all round managers need to try and accomplish the task in such a way as not to add to the distress that the affected employee will feel on hearing the news.
The council's fitness to practise panel found that Southall abused his position and that his actions added to the distress of the mother whose son hanged himself in 1996.
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