nagged

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That thinking was present last week, when general manager Brandon Gomes announced that utilityman Tommy Edman will undergo surgery to address an ankle injury that nagged him for the second half of this past season.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

The burden had lifted, never again would we be able to ask the questions that had nagged him for more than a decade.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 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

These arguably hairsplitting thoughts nagged at me thanks to my job as a congressional correspondent focused on federal spending.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

I ran out of there and did my best to forget the conversation, but it nagged at me all the way to the river like a tooth beginning to go bad.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly