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
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
England insisted her absence was due to a lack of game time and to recover from the niggle, though Ecclestone played for her county on the same day the squad was announced.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
"You've got to own it because if you don't it'll just niggle away at you," Smith said.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2025
Okay, it did niggle, but it was something I could forget easily enough.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
We had a few niggles, not everyone's been training.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Even small niggles can mean players miss two or three games.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
In 2023, after a succession of niggles, Jack Draper said he hated "being the guy who is injured a lot".
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
He hasn't suffered repeated serious injuries, like Rhian Brewster, just regular niggles that mean he has not started more than three games in a row all season.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
"When you've had such a long period of time out, you have got massive risk of picking up niggles in other areas," Anna Poyser, lead physio at the Lawn Tennis Association, told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024
She said concerns around the situation have "niggled" her since.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
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
He will be targeted which can lead, as it did in Fortaleza in the quarter-final last year, to him being injured, or it can lead, as it did here, to him being niggled into eruption.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2015
As study after study revealed the limits of screening — and the dangers of overtreatment — a thought niggled at my consciousness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2013
It was only at the very last, as their fingers brushed across the gap, that something niggled at him .
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
Despite the niggling issues, allowing foreign players entry into India's government procurement market marks a far-reaching policy shift.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
I got into bed, my legs very weary, a niggling pain in the small of my back.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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