annoy
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He traced this instinct to challenge those systems back to Socrates’ “gadfly” — the person whose job was to annoy power.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
He started doing it because it was a good way to annoy his dad, and it has stuck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026
"We're a bunch of oldies, but everyone gets stressed, everyone suffers loss and gets sad, everyone's happy, everyone has people in their life they love and people who annoy them," Forte said.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
“If we invest wisely in life extension technologies, in 40 years, we’ll all be able to annoy our friends with complaints like ‘immortality almost never works,'” he said.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
For some reason this seemed to annoy Hermione as well; she didn’t say anything, but she kept looking darkly at the broom as though it too had been criticizing her cat.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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