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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to grasp the nettle.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

He said the government would "finally grasp the nettle on social care reform" but that it "would take time" to devise a model fit for the future.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting is promising "to finally grasp the nettle on social care reform", with an independent commission due to begin work in April.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2025

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

Curled against itching nettle leaves, Omakayas eased her hand to her leg to scratch.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

Leafy greens and herbs: arugula, spinach, beet greens, mustard greens, radish tops, kale, dandelion, nasturtiums, fennel fronds, nettles, lovage, microgreens.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025

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

From Science Magazine ● May 20, 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

It was hot work, and the corn shucks made my skin itch and sting till sometimes I’d wake up at night scratching like I’d stumbled into a patch of bull nettles.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

But the jab nettled a greater insecurity: that pregnant women shouldn't be single.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021

The speeches nettled officials and brought him unwanted attention.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

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

“Can’t a fellow take a little innocent amusement now and then without losing his respectability?” asked Laurie, looking nettled.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

Dr. Orchard's manner, which can be extraordinarily nettling in conversation, as I have suggested, is evidently of a very soothing character in the confessional—if that is the proper term.

From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Harold Begbie