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“If she’d have gone to Lowe’s or Home Depot, it wouldn’t bother me. But you’re opening a school? That bothered me.”

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

When Vera C. Bushfield succeeded her late husband in 1948, she didn’t even bother to move to Washington.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

"Now there are rules... laws that protect us. Maybe the maramba understands that, so they do not bother us too much anymore."

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

I hear, for instance, that he may not bother with a lectern for his first speech as prime minister, outside 10 Downing Street, on Monday.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

We were on the street in minutes, and I didn’t bother tying the sun hat’s wide ribbon under my chin as I skipped after Aunt Kitty.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

When Major League Baseball unveiled its initial batch of All-Star voting results Monday, four players from the team that so bothers the rest of America were in position to make the National League starting lineup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Seeing Dodgers players wearing red gloves, mismatched undershirts, and other non-team colors bothers me more than it should.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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

It’s a system in which almost no one recovers anything because no one bothers to look.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

“It is…but that’s just it. That’s what bothers me.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

“If she’d have gone to Lowe’s or Home Depot, it wouldn’t bother me. But you’re opening a school? That bothered me.”

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

"You could see he wasn't bothered about the stoppage, he just needed those priceless rounds. But this fight against Wach is one he will not lose under any circumstances. It's ceremonial."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

“They didn’t seem bothered by my presence in the least.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Through more than four years of the Russian invasion, 27-year-old Oleksiy Virskovsky largely hasn't bothered going to the underground shelter in the building next door -- despite almost nightly missile and drone attacks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

It crinkled in a way that bothered his ears, so he loosened his fingers and let it go.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

But the result is often fishy products that exist because investors aren’t bothering to do the math.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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

“Stop bothering Kim, OK?” the man said, according to Ma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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

I buttoned my sweater all wrong in my haste and stuffed my feet into my shoes without bothering to tie them.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom