pesky
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Chris Pine shows off his surprising fluency in Italian in this film about a pesky tween who convinces an aimless young woman to abduct her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
But you can structure your work-from-home days or your summer Fridays so that you’re getting your work done while also tackling some of those pesky personal tasks like paying bills or getting dinner ready.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
As in both earlier games in this series, the Thunder treated a Lakers lead like a pesky gnat, swatting it away with a casual flick as if it never existed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
The Maguro shrimp fishing boat docked in Havana three days later than hoped after battling strong winds, currents and a pesky battery, with two other ships due to follow.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
It was summer now, so the woods were a new and different place, alive with green and filled with birdsong and swarming mosquitoes and pesky blackfly.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Specifically, there’s that pesky hinge, an even peskier flexible screen, and the peskiest of all: wires.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2021
The additions of Ben Revere and Daniel Murphy ease the Nationals’ overload of right-handed hitters, and they make the offense peskier.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2016
Asked about who presented the peskier test in the two-hour match, two-time U.S.
From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2014
He got peskier in faceoffs and more physical on the boards — by Kane standards.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 12, 2012
In the West, the Oklahoma City Thunder added the Perkins piece in the deal with Boston, thereby making themselves a bit tougher inside and a tad peskier to the Lakers.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 16, 2011
One of the peskiest point-of-attack defenders in the country, Harmon was named to four all-defense teams during her time at Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
It also didn’t help that Sunday was Washington’s second game without one of its peskiest defenders in backup point guard Delon Wright, who could be sidelined up to two months with a hamstring issue.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
Specifically, there’s that pesky hinge, an even peskier flexible screen, and the peskiest of all: wires.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2021
Accuracy off the tee and putting have been his peskiest issues, but he still had the Tour’s 10th-best scoring average at the end of August.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
McFay, a carpenter, who had distinguished himself at the previous trial by the melodramatic quality of his testimony, proved the peskiest witness of all.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
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"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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