niggle

"I've done everything possible to try to get to the start line but after a final scan tonight the niggle I've been managing has developed into a stress fracture," Raducanu said.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

She bowled accurately, ensuring England did not obviously miss Sophie Ecclestone - the world's number one spinner who sat out the game with a thigh niggle.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

She arrived carrying a slight niggle, and a minor injury that kept her out of October's England camp has slowed her progress.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025

"I think he'll power through even if he has a little niggle," said Brook.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

Bowler Mark Wood and all-rounder Liam Livingstone will miss the match because of knee niggles but fast bowler Jofra Archer will make his first England appearance since March, weather-permitting.

From BBC ● May 21, 2024

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

Pep Guardiola has just told TNT Sports that Jeremy Doku is not involved because of "some niggles".

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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

The exclusion crushed Kral, and something else niggled him.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020

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

Up until the last 10 minutes or so,Wales had NZ seriously niggled and were either level or leading.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2014

A small sadness niggled at the back of her mind: this meant Joe would not be coming home until the end of the summer.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Yes, there it was: the niggling, tickling feeling of belonging.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer