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It is a rhetoric likely to irk bondholders.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Clearly, this decision was designed to irk them rather than serve Bad Bunny’s millions and millions of fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025

His unreliability became legendary and was beginning to irk fellow members of Black Sabbath.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025

He and his new bride would come to them soon, though the Lady Una could be no more specific about the date of their arrival than this, and it appeared to irk her.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Mark Joseph Stern: This is what irks me the most about Roberts’ opinion in Slaughter.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

“There wasn’t a 3 at the start of my batting average last year, and that irks me,” Freeman said last week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

And her not seeming to understand how rude she was behaving really irks me.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 28, 2025

The “overtourism” that irks residents of Venice and Barcelona is also riling locals in Osaka and Kyoto, where kimono-clad visitors clog the streets and temples to secure their snapshots for social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

It irks me so much that I almost want to reply.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

That circumvention of Iran’s control has irked domestic critics of the preliminary peace deal with the U.S., which primarily aimed to reopen the strait and take pressure off oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Sanchez also dangled the prospect of a massive port deal for American investors -- one that would rival a Chinese port concession at Chancay north of Lima that has long irked the White House.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

It was the removal of wartime leader Churchill that particularly irked politicians earlier this year.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

The critiques irked Pelosi, a powerful force in California politics.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

What irked trooper Rindlisbacher was Reggie’s written statement.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

Moffett said that, in the old days, television channels didn’t have to worry about irking customers with rising costs, because that relationship was handled by a middleman — the cable companies.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

He met his wife, Rebecca, at a wedding in 1992 that he attended as a friend’s plus one, irking her by interrupting her conversation with the bride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

The head of German auto industry group VDA decried the EU parliament's decision, saying it sent a "devastating sign" and risked irking Mercosur countries.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

On Monday, Paramount ousted chief executive Bob Bakish, who was known to have opposed the Skydance proposal, irking controlling shareholder Shari Redstone.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024

My sire and hers, and even herself comply, “But nature far more strong denies, alone “Me irking with refusal.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard