pester

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Bauer has pestered women who challenge him on Twitter, a habit made more noticeable by the fact that he has not handled male critics on the platform so pointedly.

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Given how quickly I was wolfing books down, I didn’t want to pester my parents to drive me there every other day.

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We just understood this as another tool to pester with our living situation.

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“The question of what determines biological diversity has pestered evolutionary biologists ever since Wallace and Darwin came up with their theory of evolution,” Salzburger said.

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This acceleration in bee-pestered plants is not entirely a surprise.

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Do not continually pester either your companion or the conductor with questions, such as "Where are we now?"

THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEY

Do you want me to pester every office in the government with new inquiries?

PAUL PATOFFF. MARION CRAWFORD

The Landhofmeisterin continued to pester the Duke to convey her to Frankfort.

A GERMAN POMPADOURMARIE HAY

"No fear, with my old woman to pester me," answered Richard, with a grim relaxing of his features.

FOR JOHN'S SAKEANNIE FRANCES PERRAM

The next year he became editor-in-chief to the "Pester Lloyd," raising that paper to a high level of excellence.