- present participle of gall.
galling
Example Sentences
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IBM’s current predicament is especially galling given it was once at the forefront of AI with Watson, a natural-language computer processing system that won “Jeopardy!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
It can be galling that while the total at the checkout continues to rise, supermarkets are seemingly profiting.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
And that’s not even the most galling part.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
To the U.A.E., this was especially galling because several OPEC+ states were routinely falling short of their production targets.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Most galling to me was when she turned down an opportunity to go to an Ivy League business school after college, deciding that it would be too much work and therefore no fun.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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