bother
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Did your local sports radio ranter bother to rant about the subpar season of the Cleeks?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"To go back to being the young father who would go to the park with his son and wife, and no one would bother them."
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
And if he’s not toeing the line on a late-season suspension triggered by a 16th technical foul, his antics probably wouldn’t bother Lakers fans, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
He said she was a vice president of the club, and that in the village "everybody knew who she was and nobody tried to bother her".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“I’m so sorry to bother you. My, um . . . running partner’s a little dehydrated. Is there any way you could give her a cup of water?”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
This bothers Hassabis, who sees it as another problem to solve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
"The way the notice arrived bothers me as much as the delay," chief data and AI officer Simon Liu from cyber-security firm TrustDecision told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
These are fair questions the film never bothers to consider, instead favoring inert dialogue and needle drops that tell the audience when they’re supposed to be moved.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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
“You should have thought of that before. Nobody ever bothers to find out whether I can swim or not. Eh, what? What’s that?”
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
None of them are that bothered about finishing second - winning is what counts.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Some of them couldn’t even be bothered to vote.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026
Things that bothered me continued to bother me, and he did nothing about it,” Hila wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
One was so indifferent to tourists, no one bothered to rip the vines of poison ivy off the tree trunks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
But sprinkled throughout were a few Party City hippies, poodle skirts, and others who had simply not bothered to try at all, wearing whatever they would have for a typical night out.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
She has an up-and-down relationship with her one close friend, and she hesitates to bother her adored brother, Laurie, if it means bothering Laurie’s wife.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Their colonies grow faster and bigger, and they end up making news headlines by bothering humans.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
JapanLA was auctioning the rarest Sonny Angels for hundreds of dollars, and that started bothering some fans of the chubby, pantless collectibles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
“I thought maybe I was bothering you,” she said.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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