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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

But while budgets overall are up there are weak spots that could annoy Trump: three countries, including the Czech Republic and Slovenia, are expected to slip under the two-percent benchmark this year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

One surefire way to annoy a troll is to call their efforts for attention an “obsession.”

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

I glare at him as well as I can with just my eyes—only he can find a way to save the day and annoy me at the same time.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

And reacting online to the clip of Owen, another parent wrote: "Parents and potential parents do not listen to this man. Tell your kids you love them everyday, even when it annoys them."

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

That is the kind of talk that annoys Meyer, who noted the San Diego Padres used to take from the revenue-sharing fund and now pay into it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

The feature that annoys me the most is the “check the back seat” alarm that goes off whenever I exit the car, having placed anything in the back, or simply having opened the back door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

That’s what Bubbe says when someone annoys her.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Allan, who was 47 and toward the end of his second marriage by the time Steven was born, got annoyed by errant balls that Steven didn’t get in his plastic Little Tikes hoop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

"It really annoyed me at the start. I've got multiple Olympic medals, world championships - and that got remembered," said Brownlee.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

It also required him understanding that what underlies the struggles between millennials and their parents is how shockingly alike they are despite being constantly annoyed by each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

"It made me feel a bit annoyed, bit kind of disappointed in Khaleed that he let me down."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

I must have annoyed him with my question.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The AI will become an annoying digital neighbor we can’t get rid of and whose purposes we can’t know.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

It’s annoying that she is blaming her inability to complete tasks on you, but it sounds like your co-workers and boss know you’re a communicative manager.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

A better world is still possible, so long as we’re not too annoying about it.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

The constant mansplaining by Daemon about what it takes to be a strong ruler didn’t make a lick of difference, but it sure was annoying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

He just kept reading in that totally annoying way: sitting quietly with the book propped against his backpack.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows