nuisance

Falconers say that one, or a small team, of falcons or hawks can be flown over an extended period of time until the smaller nuisance birds start to disperse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Now these nuisance behaviours have become official legal offences carrying immediate fines.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Pritchard has previous convictions for harassment against another ex-husband in January 2025, and later that year was convicted of making a public nuisance or causing annoyance via a telecommunications system to a different police officer.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

But American business owners and policymakers are grappling with a thornier question: Are high energy costs a temporary nuisance to wait out, or a long-term economic reality that calls for price increases right now?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

We were a nuisance, Barack and I, a disruption to any normal scene.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Others argued that the report seems to cast members of the media as nuisances to be dealt with, while ignoring instances in which journalists were targeted by law enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

In 2017, when Sydney’s father was dying, he hired Sharon Zissman to help pay the household bills and oversee the everyday financial nuisances that he feared would burden his wife and family after his death.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

Ms. Wimpenny is ready to defend mosquitoes, writing, “those bitey nuisances are simply little animals doing what they must to become mothers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

But for gulls — sometimes erroneously called “seagulls,” though they are not exclusive to the ocean — they are described as nuisances and pests, which experts say couldn’t be further from the truth.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024

The insults were part of the nuisances of life, like lice.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison