pester

There’s a store chain called Five Below that is designed to maximize pester power.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

"We started to pester and we were phoning, and we were going back and forward to the home," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

And I never needed to pester him for stories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

It was to ensure he was comfortable with the task required to impress NFL teams that poke, prod and pester players during the evaluation process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

Upon their return from Las Vegas, they set out to pester the rating agencies, and the Wall Street people who gamed their models, for more information.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

He described Mr Amro as an "anarchist who frequently pesters IDF soldiers in Hebron".

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2023

Now, she said, her family pesters her for festival tickets, and she is preparing to direct a new film to be shot in Saudi Arabia.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021

When Emily pesters her with insecure questions about her own appearance, Mrs. Webb snaps at her daughter, “You’re pretty enough for all normal purposes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2017

Mundey, who often pesters Neiko about taking good shots and getting back on defense, yelled from the sideline.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2017

He constantly pesters students and teachers to properly dispose of their plastic water bottles.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

She pestered him to manage the property for timber production and eventually he relented.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Surely only Williams pestered the woman about it afterwards.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

There is of course the danger that instead of being pestered for a smartphone, parents will find themselves being pestered for a piece of Barbie merchandise - which may be just as unwelcome.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024

As we explored, I pestered Endro for the names of the trees we passed.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

Frightful doesn’t have such a word in her vocabulary, but then her ancestors were never pestered by flies as were Slats’s.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Become a real nuisance and tech boosters will eventually give up, handing the future back to the pestering, teeming masses.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

In mitigation, the court heard Hamilton's messages were "pestering" but not "sexual, threatening or obscene".

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

The idea for Campus Guardian Angel came from Justin Marston, a British entrepreneur and Mithril co-founder, who saw videos of small Ukrainian drones pestering Russian soldiers with guns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

As she waits for her fiancé, who is delayed by inclement weather, to arrive, her guests buzz around her like candy-colored flies, pestering her.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2024

No amount of barking and pestering by Old Yeller could get them out.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson