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The defeat and the nature of it will rankle, especially because she was considered a serious challenger for the title.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

But Schmidt would know he is highlighting a topic that might rankle with some Lions fans.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

That seemed to rankle several of the justices across ideological lines.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025

Choi plays him accurately enough to rankle his home country’s audience, and believably enough to earn the rapper new fans in the U.S. and elsewhere.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

This time “the stare” began to rankle him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

What rankles most, say many Greenlanders, is that Trump treated their home–which he called “a piece of ice, cold and poorly located” —as a commodity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

Collinsworth has successfully walked that line of being candid yet not crass, to always speak his mind even though his opinions often rankles fans of all 32 teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

Davies has played against England three times, including a 2-1 loss at Euro 2016 - a result that still rankles.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025

That rankles, and the latest street protests over pay have come from police officers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

And the hurt, cruel and immedicable, rankles in the breasts of those women today, as it rankled in the breasts of their mothers of a past long vanished.

From Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) by John W. Cromwell

In one season under Walter, season-ticket price increases rankled Lakers fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

What really rankled, they said, was that there had been no consultation about placing migrants at the base – or in the town.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Most of those tariffs have since disappeared, but the recent proposal to impose 25 percent tariffs on some Brazilian products for alleged unfair trade practices has once again rankled Brasilia.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

The challenges have rankled power users of AI products, especially coders who have grown frustrated when AI systems have been unable to finish tasks in a way they had come to expect from past use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

I rankled, just as I did when I saw it in the pictures.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

That is rankling the banking industry, which sees the new players as potential rivals that aren’t subject to the same level of regulatory oversight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

The military warning—first reported in the Washington Post, then confirmed in the New York Times—must be particularly rankling.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

It did not include any of the three conferences that would balk in meetings the following winter, and it released its ideas publicly, perhaps rankling some others.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022

“We didn’t take players from Oklahoma, we took players from the transfer portal,” Riley said in a February radio interview with Colin Cowherd, rankling fans even further.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2022

When he did find some time to visit me, he was very preoccupied, and I could feel him rankling with anger and with inactivity, but he tried hard to hide it.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey