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It is a rhetoric likely to irk bondholders.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Carney appeared to irk Trump with a speech that won a rare standing ovation this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

But the deferred contracts are what might irk the haters the most.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

Molly knows she should ignore these comments—“water off a duck’s back,” Ralph says—but they irk her.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Mark Joseph Stern: This is what irks me the most about Roberts’ opinion in Slaughter.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

“There wasn’t a 3 at the start of my batting average last year, and that irks me,” Freeman said last week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

That irks the panelists, too, evidenced in a shot of Wilson rolling his eyes at one of Coulter’s kookier mendacities.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025

The cushy arrangement irks a lot of employees as the coffee chain is enforcing a return-to-office mandate, closing cafes and laying off workers, says Christine McHugh, a former Starbucks vice president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

It irks me so much that I almost want to reply.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

While knitters were frustrated that the piece was being represented by crochet, crocheters were irked that the piece talked so much about knitting.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

But he has been irked at what he says is Paramount’s under-the-table maneuvering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

That circumvention of Iran’s control has irked domestic critics of the preliminary peace deal with the U.S., which primarily aimed to reopen the strait and take pressure off oil prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Sanchez also dangled the prospect of a massive port deal for American investors -- one that would rival a Chinese port concession at Chancay north of Lima that has long irked the White House.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

It irked him that few people seemed to understand the effects he worked so long and hard to create.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Moffett said that, in the old days, television channels didn’t have to worry about irking customers with rising costs, because that relationship was handled by a middleman — the cable companies.

From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026

He met his wife, Rebecca, at a wedding in 1992 that he attended as a friend’s plus one, irking her by interrupting her conversation with the bride.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

The head of German auto industry group VDA decried the EU parliament's decision, saying it sent a "devastating sign" and risked irking Mercosur countries.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

The MGM Grand Garden Arena even showed the UFC fight on their big screens during the wait, irking the hardcore boxing fans and the Mexican champion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

Not two hours altogether of such intercourse had been his, but it had been enough to infuse all his consciousness with a vague but irking discontent.

From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance