gall
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The son must endure the gall of being mocked and seeing his mother importuned by greedy suitors who feast nightly on the family’s stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
And then he has the gall to justify his expenses by saying that we do need two cars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
She had half her pancreas, bile duct and gall bladder removed, along with part of her gut and stomach.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2025
Yet the group’s website has the gall to show both their photos, along with the phrase “Great minds think alike.”
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2024
"The gall of them, fight-ing back. Ordinarily I'd be glad to punish such rudeness, Father, but the truth is, I have pressing business else-where."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
“It galls me that that gets forgotten, because he’s rewriting the history of what happened on those tapes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
But as much as it galls me to admit it, these gems don't always hold up to adult scrutiny.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Another dogwood leaf may be in service to a different insect altogether: the gall midge, Parallelodiplosis subtruncata, a mosquito-like fly that makes blister galls.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
One common symptom is hyperplasia, the abnormal proliferation of cells that causes the appearance of plant tumors known as galls.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
“And the mordants too. You must learn those. Sometimes sumac. Tree galls are good. Some lichens. “Best is — here, come; let me show you.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
What galled her most: the bruin stole her favorite biscotti.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
All these decades later, a wide swath of the public today continues to be baffled and occasionally galled by Pollock, just as it didn’t get Serra for years.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
He was galled that he was being asked to reconnect with a psychiatrist, saying that he would not have needed to do so if Keck had not dragged its feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
The block on calls using the popular WhatsApp, FaceTime and Skype applications has particularly galled UAE residents who were separated from families and friends by restrictions during the pandemic.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2021
Her name was April Hall, but she often galled herself April Dawn.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
IBM’s current predicament is especially galling given it was once at the forefront of AI with Watson, a natural-language computer processing system that won “Jeopardy!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
It can be galling that while the total at the checkout continues to rise, supermarkets are seemingly profiting.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
To the U.A.E., this was especially galling because several OPEC+ states were routinely falling short of their production targets.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Perhaps the most galling part of Cannon’s order, though, was that she issued it at all.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2026
The thought of writing a public apology was galling to me.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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