galling
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For rail passengers, it can be galling to hear or read that your train has been delayed, putting your journey, your day, back into a land of uncertainty.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
What’s really galling to Scots is the culprit’s lack of ambition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
To the U.A.E., this was especially galling because several OPEC+ states were routinely falling short of their production targets.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Perhaps the most galling part of Cannon’s order, though, was that she issued it at all.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2026
But there remained one particularly galling fact of life.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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