bother
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"It's affected the town - people don't bother now, they bypass Castletown. You can't rely on the tourists and coaches coming because there's nothing for them."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The phenomenon has surprised the actress, but does not bother her.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
While the film frets that the stupids are building an army to overthrow the world, it can’t even bother to come up with a counterrevolution.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
But she also believed in having fun; otherwise why bother?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
“First place they’d look. Don’t bother to change it though. It’s only silver. We’re interested in saving people, not things.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
These are fair questions the film never bothers to consider, instead favoring inert dialogue and needle drops that tell the audience when they’re supposed to be moved.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
If the attention bothers him, it doesn't show.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"I figure it'll probably disintegrate and probably nobody will ever hear it, that's what bothers me... if it rots in there before they open it."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
I think this really bothers a lot of young people.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Just like I don’t tell them. Nobody bothers about stuff like that here.”
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Even if your husband commiserates with you, I wouldn’t assume that he is as bothered by his brother’s actions as you are.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Roberts said he didn’t learn until Tuesday night, after giving Ohtani a day off for the fifth time in six games, that a swing on Monday had bothered him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
"They never bothered to tell us that that's what's happening," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Independent investors, for their part, have seemed little bothered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
She wore a basket on her head when the sun bothered her.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Their colonies grow faster and bigger, and they end up making news headlines by bothering humans.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ohtani reported that the area from his biceps to his neck was bothering him Wednesday night, Roberts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
When it offered him half a song, he said, “Good enough” — without even bothering to run it through a few rounds of polishing.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
But the result is often fishy products that exist because investors aren’t bothering to do the math.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Autumn signs at the stranger, not bothering to speak out loud.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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