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“Receiving cold calls from friends and family is now a huge pet peeve of mine,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Another pet peeve for many are sketchy cycling lanes in a city where 18 percent of all trips are made by bike.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s a pet peeve of hers when someone is multitasking when she’s trying to talk to them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

"It was something that, at first, would always really excite me, but has become increasingly something of a pet peeve," said bookseller and fantasy blogger Bethan Hindmarch, from Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025

I know that unnecessarily tall things are a pet peeve of Autumn’s, but I don’t understand why she seems so ready to go head-to-head with something this huge.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Tell us about your pet peeves or why you find them beneficial at [email protected].

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

The two also jested about their pet peeves about each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

Subsequent twists explain why one of my found-footage pet peeves — a score — has so far underlined the action; I won’t say more, to preserve this film’s many sneaky detours.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Instead of getting to know each other, becoming familiar with likes and dislikes, ticklish spots, pet peeves, Desdemona and Lefty tried to defamiliarize themselves with each other.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

On Reddit, he found plenty of other peeved customers but no perfect replica.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Apple’s AI missteps, including a botched rollout of a smarter version of the Siri voice assistant, peeved investors last year.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

With Laurie still peeved about Jaclyn’s sleepover with Valentin, the hotel worker the actor had been encouraging Laurie to pursue, the women’s dinner turns into a sharing circle of underhanded observations about each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

“I didn’t come here to play games, and that’s kind of what this is feeling like to me,” says one peeved competitor on this romance game show, “And it’s a little disappointing.”

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025

Well, I got tired of feeling like I was alone in that particular crowd, and I was peeved about Paulie T.’s pleasure at my expense.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

No-one needs point out to Starmer himself that changing the leadership mid-government causes huge disruption to Whitehall and the country by slowing down the government's work and peeving the public.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Vigilante peeving does nothing to actually educate people.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013

Instead of peeving about supposed incorrect usage, they find themselves using better dictionaries, consulting better usage guides, and looking at cost-free high-quality online materials - such as language corpora - to figure it out.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2011

I can't say I was wholly faultless in peeving Governor Reed but I couldn't let him get away with that.

From Time Magazine Archive

I guess he’s afraid now the boy will copy his bad example, and that’s peeving Mr. Phillips.”

From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Frank V. Webster