nettle

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to grasp the nettle.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

But he said not much had happened since because politicians were too afraid to grasp the nettle.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025

In “Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen,” Olson shares dishes like elk chili beans, nettle tortillas, blackberry-braised smoked salmon and nearly a dozen recipes featuring acorns.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024

Anderson's future as a Test cricketer has been the subject of debate for years, but England have finally grabbed the nettle.

From BBC ● May 10, 2024

I did that, Rishi thought, and the idea stung like nettle.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

In the midst of a mass – or "smack" – of Pacific sea nettles, Mr Pace coated any skin not covered by his wetsuit with petroleum jelly to protect himself from stings.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.

From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024

Some are well-known to foragers and farmers market shoppers — nettles, morels, garlic scapes.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

No tree grew there, only rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks and wood-parsley, fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes, and rampant nettles and thistles.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“He might have added the thought, And why is my life nettled by that question?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

But the jab nettled a greater insecurity: that pregnant women shouldn't be single.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021

The speeches nettled officials and brought him unwanted attention.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

There’s a nettled rejoinder from George: “That’s a matter of taste. All down the line, people have liked my songs.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2019

Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

It is a far cry from the downtown encampment in Ottawa, where 18-wheelers blocked off city streets, aggravating local residents and nettling the police.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

It's the very speed at which something so artful in design, so ironic in idea, turns so tedious that is so nettling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

It was a particularly nettling irritant just as the U.S. was deeply involved in making some hard decisions about its monetary policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging, nettling memory of property or money lost, or of a move not made.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pauline's questions were nettling, and Selma intended by her response to suggest the presumptuousness of her sister-in-law's doubts in the face of competent authority.

From Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant