peeve
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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’s a pet peeve with many people,” he told me.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
Gavaskar's big peeve is about the boundary distance being reduced from the conventional 75 yards to 65 or even lesser.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
We know every secret, private joke and pet peeve about each other , based on memories woven so deeply into the L.A. backdrop, they can’t be undone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Okay, tiny pet peeve: when the girls call me kid.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
His biggest etiquette pet peeves include underdressing and overfamiliarity, especially in virtual settings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
For years, Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, has been laying into one of his personal peeves, the health care system.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
Here’s a look at the couple’s breakups, makeups, parenting, advocating and peeves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
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
“It sounds like a competitor’s just peeved that they’re losing market share,” Kershner said, “and maybe they’re grasping at straws.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Voters attracted to Reform don't come from any one political tribe, but ask pollsters and they share a sentiment – they're pretty peeved with the UK in 2025.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
When Stracke was late for a recent lunch date, a peeved Beauvais stormed off upon her arrival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
Having found neither sword nor snake, the King had become peeved and bad tempered.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
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