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Bunney, who said she has been stung a lot by jellyfish, compared a mild sting to that of a nettle.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

On Friday, Burnham, whose father has Alzheimer's, said he was "prepared to grasp the nettle" to make changes adding, "the system's broken".

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

But he said not much had happened since because politicians were too afraid to grasp the nettle.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025

In “Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen,” Olson shares dishes like elk chili beans, nettle tortillas, blackberry-braised smoked salmon and nearly a dozen recipes featuring acorns.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024

Holly grabbed the remains of a nettle smoothie from the cooler and drank it in the tunnels.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.

From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024

But the khobeza is starting to run out, he said, so he now lives off a soup made from hot water and stinging nettles.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

Working on a rooftop farm in Brooklyn expo sed me to nettles.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

There was an allotment, which nobody looked after, and nettles grew, waist-high.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

“He might have added the thought, And why is my life nettled by that question?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

But the jab nettled a greater insecurity: that pregnant women shouldn't be single.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021

There’s a nettled rejoinder from George: “That’s a matter of taste. All down the line, people have liked my songs.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2019

The jolt of seeing him there where, only a few minutes before, I’d felt safe from observation nettled me.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019

Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

It is a far cry from the downtown encampment in Ottawa, where 18-wheelers blocked off city streets, aggravating local residents and nettling the police.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

It's the very speed at which something so artful in design, so ironic in idea, turns so tedious that is so nettling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

It was a particularly nettling irritant just as the U.S. was deeply involved in making some hard decisions about its monetary policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging, nettling memory of property or money lost, or of a move not made.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lincoln began these remarks by good-humored but nettling chaffing of his opponent.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 by Various