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[nag] / næg /


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I don’t want to nag, but neither do I want to be a doormat.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

A few doubts nag him, such as: what are he and his team accomplishing by sorting random numbers?

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025

"Richard was incredibly keen on transplants and he used to nag me, 'what do you want to do?' and I was a bit wishy washy about it and wouldn't really answer."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

“You know, taking care of my body more, being more aware. Like whenever there is a nag or something, you’re right on it. That’s made a big difference.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

“Mordred wouldn’t nag, as you call it,” interjected Agravaine, “if you didn’t bully.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I admire the image, but my conscience nags that one should have to trek halfway around the world to see such a thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Still, it nags, especially given Alvarez’s commitment elsewhere to grungy practical sets and props.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

But at the top of that list, people who know him say, is a concern that nags at him as a father: the legal problems of his son, Hunter Biden.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

And every time HBO Max yanks another movie or TV show I love from the platform, a thought nags at me: Chris was right.

From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2023

Little Fifi nags that she wants to go, and finally her mother gives in.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

As summer enters its final laps, at last I have the answer to a question that has nagged at me for more than half a century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Boland nagged away, having Will Jacks athletically caught by Carey, once again up to the stumps.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

And when I returned in the fall of 2023 to watch Pretzel again, the feeling nagged at me that maybe I could.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025

Murray, who was nagged by a strained left calf during the first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers, has been bothered by right elbow pain in the past.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

She wouldn’t talk about her sleepwalking or the temper tantrums that exploded when her mother nagged her or her father made her do her chores over again.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Another nagging issue is that the company didn’t share much on its plans to return cash to shareholders when its Chips Act-related restrictions lift in December, Naji noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

"She got stuck into gritty, controversial, but crucial causes partly because she had a fine, natural social conscience, but also to assuage nagging feelings of worthlessness."

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Baker-Mazara, who dealt with nagging injuries all season that held him out of practice, spent the remainder of the game in a folding chair on the baseline, away from the rest of the team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

She is in her late 70s and complains of nagging aches and pains, neuropathy, fatigue, anxiety, and occasional changes in her weight.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

What was it about the understone funds that had been nagging at the back of Dallas’s brain?

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech




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