annoy
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"It doesn't annoy me. I get that they do need to get what they can because it's a short career and they have to look after themselves."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Some days, these meetings annoy me so much that I want to quit.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
He traced this instinct to challenge those systems back to Socrates’ “gadfly” — the person whose job was to annoy power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He started doing it because it was a good way to annoy his dad, and it has stuck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
“Well, because they could. And because Crazy Horse wanted to annoy the Long Knives.”
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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And reacting online to the clip of Owen, another parent wrote: "Parents and potential parents do not listen to this man. Tell your kids you love them everyday, even when it annoys them."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
That is the kind of talk that annoys Meyer, who noted the San Diego Padres used to take from the revenue-sharing fund and now pay into it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
And we want to know: When it comes to hotels rooms, what annoys you most and what amenities are a pleasant surprise?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
"It annoys me that I have to do that, but it's a trick that works," she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
Kaede’s nonchalant tone annoys me, but I brush it aside.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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I annoyed certain readers by pointing out that airport security had worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“You just kind of get annoyed and exhausted, because you think it’s an opportunity and it really isn’t,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
But some of the people played for suckers, like Melissa Santos, a dancer who answered an ad for a music video not knowing who was behind it, are still annoyed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Shevels, who the court heard was known in the town of Crook to be a nuisance when drunk, annoyed the Greensmith family by sitting nearby and trying to talk to them.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Jonah was getting annoyed with their little junior detective routine.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Apparently, this trait is as annoying in humans as it is in AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“I know it’s annoying as hell to say, ‘I’m taking it a day at a time,’ but it is a unique thing,” McVay said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
When asked if there was nervousness about potentially annoying military chiefs, a senior Treasury source said you'd be "hard-placed to find anyone sceptical" of the idea that Healey is committed to keeping the country safe.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
This is objectively annoying, and you are not being dramatic at all.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Charlie’s got this annoying habit of waking me up by being right in my face and super loud.
From "Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero" by Kelly J. Baptist
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