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annoy

[uh-noi] / əˈnɔɪ /


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The carrier said it has also been trying to do a better job handling weather disruptions and has worked to address other practices that annoy customers, such as rolling delays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Some days, these meetings annoy me so much that I want to quit.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

He traced this instinct to challenge those systems back to Socrates’ “gadfly” — the person whose job was to annoy power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

And does that word annoy other football-loving nations?

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

“Hey, Jo-No,” she called, using the nickname she knew would annoy him.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

In the United Kingdom, existing laws ban "anti-social behaviour" on trains and stations, including using "sound-producing equipment" without permission if it annoys others.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

What annoys Druckenmiller is not just the questionable wisdom of Bessent’s strategy, but the necessity.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Corporate America is full of corporate speak—and most of it annoys us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026

“That’s why it annoys me when we are dubbed the ‘lazy’ generation, or the generation that needs to cut back on avocado toast,” a user posting under the name Charlie Louise said on TikTok.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026

And it annoys me that all she sees are the bad parts.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

Ni Wayan Susiani, 22, said she had to wait around five hours before she managed to buy fuel for her motorbike, adding that the situation had left her "annoyed".

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Nor is it loud and dry like that of a severely under-caffeinated customer who’s annoyed that the barista is holding up the line to chat with a regular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Get annoyed that breakfast had somehow become a decision I needed to make before coffee.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

When I was updating the instructions I use for Claude, for example, I had it review a bunch of my past chats to look for signals of when I was annoyed by an AI response.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

I thought I was the one who should be annoyed at him, though, because if he wanted to know my name, that’s what he should have said in the first place.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

If so, I’ll defer to what my father told me was mine: asking annoying questions.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

She told detectives she left the puppy at a park because it had been annoying her boyfriend by biting on his shoes and belongings, according to department spokesperson Natalie Garcia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

They are making the alarms smarter, more useful and less annoying, while developing early-warning systems that could help clinicians intervene sooner and potentially prevent some alarms from being triggered in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"He is a phenomenal talent, is very well liked in dressing room as well and seems to be one of those guys who is good at everything he does, which will be incredibly annoying."

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

She turned up her hands in a very annoying way.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck


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