bother
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Did your local sports radio ranter bother to rant about the subpar season of the Cleeks?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
If it’s close, no one will bother to pick up the shaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
"To go back to being the young father who would go to the park with his son and wife, and no one would bother them."
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
And if he’s not toeing the line on a late-season suspension triggered by a 16th technical foul, his antics probably wouldn’t bother Lakers fans, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
“You mustn’t bother me. I know that you have not come to talk about dogs. You must give me time.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
What bothers me is that everyone is arguing about what she deserves and nobody is asking what mom needs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
“I see what it’s leading to in the future and that doesn’t scare me, but it bothers me for the other people that aren’t ready,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
That, frankly, bothers me more than almost anything else raised in these etiquette debates.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“You don’t live through a disaster like this without forever thinking about the next disaster. ... It bothers a lot of us that the county doesn’t seem to share that vigilance.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
No one bothers with the words of the mad, after all.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Some of them couldn’t even be bothered to vote.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
McDonnell, he said, hasn’t even bothered to give out his cellphone number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
The people in Hopper’s pictures have bothered some viewers, because they can look stilted or wooden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
A T. rex would not have bothered, as we would have been too small.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
If anyone had even bothered to notice anything beyond their own stupid lives, I would never have been in that forest with those fireworks.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
"So, I think for fans, 'Don't bite the hand that feeds you'. If people keep taunting him and don't want him to win, he might end up just walking away and not bothering anymore."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Their colonies grow faster and bigger, and they end up making news headlines by bothering humans.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
JapanLA was auctioning the rarest Sonny Angels for hundreds of dollars, and that started bothering some fans of the chubby, pantless collectibles.
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
I thought of Ob, this particular cold morning, not even bothering to fix his usual cup of cocoa when he got out of bed.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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