niggle
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Defender Djed Spence has complained of a muscular niggle before England's last-16 World Cup meeting with Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
"I think he'll power through even if he has a little niggle," said Brook.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
Mbappe had received treatment for a "small niggle" in his right ankle picked up playing for Real Madrid last weekend.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Enrique did not elaborate and said that Dembele had a "niggle" and it was "nothing serious".
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
Okay, it did niggle, but it was something I could forget easily enough.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sciver-Brunt was ruled out of this series last week but Sophie Ecclestone and Issy Wong also missed the game with thigh and hamstring niggles respectively.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Even small niggles can mean players miss two or three games.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
At times he looked like Laurel and Hardy's car with various bits of his body looking like they were going to fall off because of his niggles.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
There was precious little time to overcome any niggles before the final.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
Pep Guardiola has just told TNT Sports that Jeremy Doku is not involved because of "some niggles".
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
She said concerns around the situation have "niggled" her since.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Although his knee completely gave up on him when the stakes were highest, it has allowed Aspinall to have surgery, solving a problem which has niggled away at him for his entire UFC career.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2023
Even then Hale’s attitude – that she was claiming to be just as messed up as the teenager she had attacked – niggled at me.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2014
As study after study revealed the limits of screening — and the dangers of overtreatment — a thought niggled at my consciousness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2013
A small sadness niggled at the back of her mind: this meant Joe would not be coming home until the end of the summer.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
It’s all too easy to live with these niggling problems until one day a problem turns into an incident.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
In a maelstrom, one might think such niggling questions of jurisdiction and their attendant turf wars would be set aside.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
On a separate farewell podcast for paid subscribers, Maron and his longtime producer Brendan McDonald explained that the relentless workload was tiring and articulated a niggling feeling that the show belonged to a different era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Now they are confronted with the niggling possibility that something similar could be happening on their side of the political spectrum too.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
He glanced at her again, worry niggling at him.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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