peeve
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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
“I have a pet peeve about mental-health narratives in a lot of movies,” says Shear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026
He says he believes the system has improved access to university for disadvantaged students, and that it's a "pet peeve" to hear discussions of it being a "crippling loan", or like a mortgage.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Tell us the word or phrase and why it’s your pet peeve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Okay, tiny pet peeve: when the girls call me kid.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
It doesn’t take much for my inbox to fill up, but when the topic is hotel pet peeves it overflows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 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
I went to Italy for the first time two years ago and learned that one of their pet peeves is how we say “pistachio.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
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
One former official recalls a departing prime minister being peeved there was an "office spruce-up", with walls being freshly painted for their replacement about to arrive.
From BBC ● Jul. 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
Recalls a peeved Mr. Blankfein: “It was like the undertaker calling at your sickbed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
When Stracke was late for a recent lunch date, a peeved Beauvais stormed off upon her arrival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
Tony was a little peeved at having the one speech of his lifetime ruined like that.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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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