pester
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Brush clearance is required nationwide, but local fire departments rarely pester property owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
There’s a store chain called Five Below that is designed to maximize pester power.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
"We started to pester and we were phoning, and we were going back and forward to the home," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
And I never needed to pester him for stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
My daughter does not pester me with questions.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
He described Mr Amro as an "anarchist who frequently pesters IDF soldiers in Hebron".
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2023
On their way to Bill and Frank’s, Ellie pesters Joel with questions about the pandemic, and he explains to her — and to us — more about what happened.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
Sometimes she slips up and pesters me by saying, “Steve, take out the garbage please.”
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2019
When Emily pesters her with insecure questions about her own appearance, Mrs. Webb snaps at her daughter, “You’re pretty enough for all normal purposes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2017
He constantly pesters students and teachers to properly dispose of their plastic water bottles.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
As the days went on, the smell worsened, drawing swarms of flies and rats to the neighborhood, where they pestered and sickened locals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
She pestered him to manage the property for timber production and eventually he relented.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He added: "I should have pestered them to be honest, and I see that now."
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025
Surely only Williams pestered the woman about it afterwards.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
She’d pestered, cajoled, and sometimes yelled at Dad to get a license, but he’d insisted that he preferred pedal power.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
Worn down by pestering, our parents relented and allowed ginger ale at Sunday dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Become a real nuisance and tech boosters will eventually give up, handing the future back to the pestering, teeming masses.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
As she waits for her fiancé, who is delayed by inclement weather, to arrive, her guests buzz around her like candy-colored flies, pestering her.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
So next season I started pestering people months before.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024
I became so used to her noise—chattering, whining, pestering, laughing, crying—that my ear went on hearing it even when it stopped.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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