pester
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There’s a store chain called Five Below that is designed to maximize pester power.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
And I never needed to pester him for stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
But as I tried to pester, cajole, and play to what I thought were his sympathies to convince him to speak with me, he quickly stopped being mad.
From Slate ● May 31, 2024
Mark says: "My friend Dougie's mum, a lovely lady called Margaret, ran the catering and we would pester her for pancakes."
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
I took a deep breath and resolved not to pester Ben so much when he was lecturing me.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
And in any given group, there is inevitably a queen bee who pesters her friends to do things beyond their comfort zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
He described Mr Amro as an "anarchist who frequently pesters IDF soldiers in Hebron".
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2023
Now, she said, her family pesters her for festival tickets, and she is preparing to direct a new film to be shot in Saudi Arabia.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
If she pesters your husband, that’s his problem.
From Slate ● May 29, 2020
He constantly pesters students and teachers to properly dispose of their plastic water bottles.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Snead said he pestered Berry “probably jokingly at first,” before talks became more serious before and after the NFL draft in late April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
He pestered his parents and friends about the risks of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Surely only Williams pestered the woman about it afterwards.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
As we explored, I pestered Endro for the names of the trees we passed.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
Other kids pestered me: “Put her on the Hot Seat!”
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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
The idea for Campus Guardian Angel came from Justin Marston, a British entrepreneur and Mithril co-founder, who saw videos of small Ukrainian drones pestering Russian soldiers with guns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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
Davide Ancelotti had been pestering his father, Carlo, to make one particular substitution.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
Nathan listened closely, and that voice was no longer pestering his uncle.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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