peeve
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“It is my biggest pet peeve that restaurants in the U.S. act like Diet Coke is the only option,” Ike Uche, a college administrator in New York, wrote in an email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
My current pet peeve is everyone on social media posting linear ratings and comparing them to the season before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
“It’s a pet peeve with many people,” he told me.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
"It was something that, at first, would always really excite me, but has become increasingly something of a pet peeve," said bookseller and fantasy blogger Bethan Hindmarch, from Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
I know that unnecessarily tall things are a pet peeve of Autumn’s, but I don’t understand why she seems so ready to go head-to-head with something this huge.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
It doesn’t take much for my inbox to fill up, but when the topic is hotel pet peeves it overflows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
The two also jested about their pet peeves about each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
Subsequent twists explain why one of my found-footage pet peeves — a score — has so far underlined the action; I won’t say more, to preserve this film’s many sneaky detours.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Instead of getting to know each other, becoming familiar with likes and dislikes, ticklish spots, pet peeves, Desdemona and Lefty tried to defamiliarize themselves with each other.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Apple’s AI missteps, including a botched rollout of a smarter version of the Siri voice assistant, peeved investors last year.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
Recalls a peeved Mr. Blankfein: “It was like the undertaker calling at your sickbed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
“I didn’t come here to play games, and that’s kind of what this is feeling like to me,” says one peeved competitor on this romance game show, “And it’s a little disappointing.”
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
Voters attracted to Reform don't come from any one political tribe, but ask pollsters and they share a sentiment – they're pretty peeved with the UK in 2025.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
“Ignore them, Patty,” consoled her friend, shooting the boys a peeved look.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
No-one needs point out to Starmer himself that changing the leadership mid-government causes huge disruption to Whitehall and the country by slowing down the government's work and peeving the public.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Vigilante peeving does nothing to actually educate people.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
Instead of peeving about supposed incorrect usage, they find themselves using better dictionaries, consulting better usage guides, and looking at cost-free high-quality online materials - such as language corpora - to figure it out.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2011
I can't say I was wholly faultless in peeving Governor Reed but I couldn't let him get away with that.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was exulting in the thought that he must be peeving Amanda.
From Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites by Myers, Anna Balmer
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