nag

I don’t want to nag, but neither do I want to be a doormat.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

They'll leave with brilliant memories of days and nights together, of wins on the road that bonded them, of a series won, but Saturday will nag away at them forever.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

Still, in the weeks and months following the decoder experiments, the unsettling implications of the device began to nag at him.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024

He also this week said "Yeah" in response to an X message that "No steering wheel nag will be a *game changer* for FSD user satisfaction."

From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2023

He doesn’t feel this always, just enough to nag at him, settling over his thoughts like a web.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

These portrayals were part of an even longer history of depicting wives as nags and harridans, a narrative device that can be found in the Old Testament.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

They tend to start quietly—an elbow that aches after the range, a shoulder that nags during the backswing, a wrist that feels tired late in the round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

Still, it nags, especially given Alvarez’s commitment elsewhere to grungy practical sets and props.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

But at the top of that list, people who know him say, is a concern that nags at him as a father: the legal problems of his son, Hunter Biden.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

It nags at me, even though you’re gone and there’s no one to give it to anymore.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead

It was not long before the spectacle of the London Marathon captured his imagination and he nagged his parents to help him peer over the barriers for a closer look at the elites.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

And when I returned in the fall of 2023 to watch Pretzel again, the feeling nagged at me that maybe I could.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025

These arguably hairsplitting thoughts nagged at me thanks to my job as a congressional correspondent focused on federal spending.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

Carroll said Friday one thing that could help is second-year running back Kenneth Walker III having finally gotten past a shoulder injury that has nagged him the past few weeks.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

Now irritation beyond reason swept them all, since they were nagged by fear that he could string it.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Ohtani’s nagging knee problem creates the most uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

But a nagging question has remained throughout: is anyone else watching?

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised interest rates Wednesday in what appeared to be a tentative move by policy makers to combat nagging inflation pressures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

As his mother’s grief and legal battles to get Fadi home worsen her mental health, Sattouf’s own life is upended by high school, hormones, heartbreak — and a nagging uncertainty.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

“Can I tell you something? Ever since we moved up from elementary school, my parents have been nagging me to make new friends. They say Steph is more like us.”

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan