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On Friday, Burnham, whose father has Alzheimer's, said he was "prepared to grasp the nettle" to make changes adding, "the system's broken".

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

In “Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen,” Olson shares dishes like elk chili beans, nettle tortillas, blackberry-braised smoked salmon and nearly a dozen recipes featuring acorns.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024

Or should it grasp the special administration nettle earlier?

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024

Cook freezes them in ice cube trays, using them as sauce starters or in pesto, while Herrera makes cream of nettle soup by blending nettles with baked potatoes, milk, butter, garlic and concentrated chicken broth.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

Look at the concentration in her face, judging the angle, never fudging a shot, taking each nettle with inhuman precision.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.

From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024

Some are well-known to foragers and farmers market shoppers — nettles, morels, garlic scapes.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Though we try to work around the stingers to avoid the rashes they produce, nettles can be handled safely and have many anti-inflammatory benefits.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

They were coming to a thicket of juniper and dog roses, tangled at ground level with nettles and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning to ripen and turn red.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

“He might have added the thought, And why is my life nettled by that question?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

There’s a nettled rejoinder from George: “That’s a matter of taste. All down the line, people have liked my songs.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2019

The jolt of seeing him there where, only a few minutes before, I’d felt safe from observation nettled me.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019

Last Wednesday, the Huskies barely topped Boston University, 61-59, as they were nettled by the Terriers’ zone defense.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2016

As I feared it would my lack of “cooperation” nettled the driver.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

It is a far cry from the downtown encampment in Ottawa, where 18-wheelers blocked off city streets, aggravating local residents and nettling the police.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

It's the very speed at which something so artful in design, so ironic in idea, turns so tedious that is so nettling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging, nettling memory of property or money lost, or of a move not made.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a particularly nettling irritant just as the U.S. was deeply involved in making some hard decisions about its monetary policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pauline's questions were nettling, and Selma intended by her response to suggest the presumptuousness of her sister-in-law's doubts in the face of competent authority.

From Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant