bother
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For much of its history, the ICC didn’t bother those countries as it concentrated on arresting suspects and obtaining convictions in its African cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The question then is whether children will still bother with them, once they are deliberately toned down into a much blander offering.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But it didn’t bother Wertheim, who has a flair for patterned loafers and wears a signature red fedora.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This means that if you have no better than random success at picking the best and worst days, you shouldn’t bother.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
I didn’t even bother to pick up my half-mended petticoat from the floor.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
"I figure it'll probably disintegrate and probably nobody will ever hear it, that's what bothers me... if it rots in there before they open it."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
I think this really bothers a lot of young people.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
What bothers me is that you signed a document — we don’t even know if it was an acceptance of appointment — without reading it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Guardiola responded by saying the insinuation that City were spending their way to success "bothers me, because it's not true that we spent £200m every window."
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
I don’t know why but it bothers me.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Independent investors, for their part, have seemed little bothered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
"It's been an irritant... that has kind of really bothered the United States," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It bothered him that nobody could keep pace with receiver Nick Garton, who also excelled in soccer and track in high school, and could breeze up the grade like it was nothing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"I'm more bothered that England hasn't won the World Cup than I am to have a tattoo on my leg," the 36-year-old said, adding: "It's not bothering me. It's just a tattoo."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
But after that, no one bothered him or Alicia or Zeke.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
When it offered him half a song, he said, “Good enough” — without even bothering to run it through a few rounds of polishing.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Having these tasks helped him and other interns stay productive and avoid bothering senior associates when they had a lull in their work, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Seeking a location where he could practice without bothering the neighbors in his Manhattan apartment, he found a perch on the Williamsburg Bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
He said this was because the changes were "fraught with hoops you have to jump through" that "deters a lot of people from even bothering".
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Actually, his lungs were bothering him at that time.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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