bothered
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Things that bothered me continued to bother me, and he did nothing about it,” Hila wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
"Personally I'm not that bothered about the stats, I've always said I think there should be a match-winning column in your stats – that's not there," Brook said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
That was when she bothered to show up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
A T. rex would not have bothered, as we would have been too small.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Alt-A was just what they called crappy mortgage loans for which they hadn’t even bothered to acquire the proper documents—to verify the borrower’s income, say.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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