niggle
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He reached the semi-finals of all four Grand Slams last year, and had a niggle in each match.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
"I think he'll power through even if he has a little niggle," said Brook.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
Mbappe had received treatment for a "small niggle" in his right ankle picked up playing for Real Madrid last weekend.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Kartal, who has been managing a knee niggle in recent months, suffered physically in a 6-3 1-6 6-1 defeat against Brazilian 18th seed Beatriz Haddad Maia.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
Okay, it did niggle, but it was something I could forget easily enough.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Jenkins said he "expected a few niggles" following the operation, but his fitness started to deteriorate rapidly and he "knew nothing had changed".
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue are the spare quicks in the squad after Stokes struggled with various niggles.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
Guardiola, who previously said Haaland had "muscle niggles", said: "He woke up and feels much better. And hopefully he can play a few minutes."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024
There was precious little time to overcome any niggles before the final.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
Pep Guardiola has just told TNT Sports that Jeremy Doku is not involved because of "some niggles".
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
Although his knee completely gave up on him when the stakes were highest, it has allowed Aspinall to have surgery, solving a problem which has niggled away at him for his entire UFC career.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2023
The exclusion crushed Kral, and something else niggled him.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
Up until the last 10 minutes or so,Wales had NZ seriously niggled and were either level or leading.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2014
But, as the years passed, he became niggled that people were started to forget about Thin Lizzy.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2011
The thought niggled at Ophie as she set down her bucket and began to wipe at the windows, the water sloshing a bit as she worked.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
It’s all too easy to live with these niggling problems until one day a problem turns into an incident.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
In a maelstrom, one might think such niggling questions of jurisdiction and their attendant turf wars would be set aside.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
On a separate farewell podcast for paid subscribers, Maron and his longtime producer Brendan McDonald explained that the relentless workload was tiring and articulated a niggling feeling that the show belonged to a different era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
The prospect of cuts has helped push world markets ever higher this year, offsetting niggling worries about stretched valuations in the tech sector.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
They were younger, coarser men who enforced every niggling regulation, whose job was to harass and demoralize us.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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