hassle
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Changing prices and wages can be a hassle, or be bound by contracts, so prices can actually be “sticky.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A gymnastics coach by training, Kelly was inspired to start Frosted Faces after she volunteered at local animal shelters and noticed owners turning in elderly pets because they had become too much of a hassle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“The downside: If you do end up in an accident, dealing with credit-card coverage can be more of a hassle than you’d encounter with the car-company CDW.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Anyone switching now shouldn't face the same hassle.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
I worry he’s going to give me a hassle, but he’s got his own things to do, as he tells me repeatedly.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
Those hassles include questions about issues like gift-tax reporting and the potential for account growth to be taxable in certain states.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Javier Pérez came with his family for the opener and told the BBC that the excitement now outweighs any hassles experienced up to this point.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
It’s not the hassles and aggravation that most people put up with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
Others said it’s not worth it to dress up, especially given the hassles now often associated with air travel.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
The struggle and hassles of Harlem were not what he wanted to bring home with him.
From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers
When BBC Scotland News visited, two workmen painting road markings said they had been "hassled" by locals while going about their jobs.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026
Despite his well-known opposition to the ballot measure, no one hassled him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Among Lexie Manion’s memories of her junior year of high school in New Jersey was the experience of being regularly hassled by a school nurse who was trying to weigh her.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2024
But he also said he was tired of the Paterson police, of being worried he was going to be arrested or hassled.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Twice Bull had hassled with Brannon in their F-8’s, and twice he had come away believing that Brannon was either an incompetent fighter pilot or a coward.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Su’s buyers, who include many of America’s biggest retailers, have largely stopped hassling him to shift more production from China, in part because they recognize the efficiency of Chinese manufacturing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
A few months ago, it would have been hard to fathom federal authorities hassling Tesla over pretty much anything.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025
Prior to the arrest, she had been hassling patrons at local businesses along the highway and told shoppers at Circle K that she had been robbed, Johnson told the Mail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
A Southern sea otter, nicknamed Otter 841, has been hassling surfers at Santa Cruz, California's Steamer Lane all summer.
From DOGO News ● Aug. 25, 2023
Why isn’t he hassling Terrell or Wes or any of the other starters, asking them to help Boy21?
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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