irk
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It is a rhetoric likely to irk bondholders.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Clearly, this decision was designed to irk them rather than serve Bad Bunny’s millions and millions of fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025
Mr Peirson is concerned that the nature of the Ministry of Defence building deal may irk businesses which have already committed to Serbia.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
Sahil shifted beside me, probably not used to being so close to Hannah’s irk.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
He describes a kind of grief and irritation as Diana becomes public property and then royal property, which irks him even more, disliking the "nonsense of fawning" around the monarchy.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Walker, whose lab studies how neighborhood sounds affect our health, suggested that the nature of the noise likely irks me as much as the volume.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Mark Joseph Stern: This is what irks me the most about Roberts’ opinion in Slaughter.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
As a writer who is both gay and old enough to have watched the internet explode into the nefarious monster it’s become, the way language transforms online both irks and fascinates me.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
It irks me that she thinks this is fine.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
That circumvention of Iran’s control has irked domestic critics of the preliminary peace deal with the U.S., which primarily aimed to reopen the strait and take pressure off oil prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
It was the removal of wartime leader Churchill that particularly irked politicians earlier this year.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
The critiques irked Pelosi, a powerful force in California politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Hegseth was also reportedly irked by Phelan communicating directly on the matter with Trump, which Hegseth took to be a slight.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
And it irked him that she did not want to know more.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Moffett said that, in the old days, television channels didn’t have to worry about irking customers with rising costs, because that relationship was handled by a middleman — the cable companies.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
The head of German auto industry group VDA decried the EU parliament's decision, saying it sent a "devastating sign" and risked irking Mercosur countries.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
The company had also stopped communicating with Jefferies’ investment bankers, irking people within the firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
He is known for his fiery speeches, and leading protests in unconventional ways against alleged government excesses, often irking authorities.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
Not two hours altogether of such intercourse had been his, but it had been enough to infuse all his consciousness with a vague but irking discontent.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
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