bother
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“If she’d have gone to Lowe’s or Home Depot, it wouldn’t bother me. But you’re opening a school? That bothered me.”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
When Vera C. Bushfield succeeded her late husband in 1948, she didn’t even bother to move to Washington.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
"Now there are rules... laws that protect us. Maybe the maramba understands that, so they do not bother us too much anymore."
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
The tirade was so pathetic and noneventful that most networks didn’t bother to air it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
If my parents were busy, I would bother Camille or follow Andre around.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
“If that bothers you, don’t hesitate to mute or block me. I don’t have the capacity or patience to debate with internet strangers as to why they should be considerate of marginalized communities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
I can get a coffee in the morning and no-one bothers me and I think that's completely priceless.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
It’s a system in which almost no one recovers anything because no one bothers to look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
We’ll have to wait to see if anyone bothers to celebrate this October.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
No one bothers to follow up with destiny, though.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
“If she’d have gone to Lowe’s or Home Depot, it wouldn’t bother me. But you’re opening a school? That bothered me.”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
She’s not bothered, though, since what the experience did do was “give me the confidence to produce this album for myself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Through more than four years of the Russian invasion, 27-year-old Oleksiy Virskovsky largely hasn't bothered going to the underground shelter in the building next door -- despite almost nightly missile and drone attacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
He said he might not have bothered to show up at the summit at all if it wasn’t being hosted by his friend, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
It was illegal to bring all this Western loot into the Soviet Union, but Penkovsky breezed through customs without a search—the goodies were for his bosses, and they made sure he wasn’t bothered.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
But it still was bothering him during his latest buildup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
He said this was because the changes were "fraught with hoops you have to jump through" that "deters a lot of people from even bothering".
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
If there’s tension in your relationship over money, think about what’s bothering you and bring it up in a nonblaming way, she advises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“And it was like, if it’s not bothering us, why should we care?” said George.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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