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“Receiving cold calls from friends and family is now a huge pet peeve of mine,” she said.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Another pet peeve for many are sketchy cycling lanes in a city where 18 percent of all trips are made by bike.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

He said BuzzBallz have "have no recovery route in the current system" and "is a huge pet peeve for our customers and us".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

“I have a pet peeve about mental-health narratives in a lot of movies,” says Shear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2026

The fact that many prescriptive rules are worth keeping does not mean that every pet peeve, bit of grammatical folklore, or dimly remembered lesson from Miss Thistlebottom’s classroom is worth keeping.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

After all, one of the biggest pet peeves of modern makers is the perception of their craft as being a frivolous hobby, rather than centuries-old skills that served as a foundation of modern engineering.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

It doesn’t take much for my inbox to fill up, but when the topic is hotel pet peeves it overflows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

I went to Italy for the first time two years ago and learned that one of their pet peeves is how we say “pistachio.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

Instead of getting to know each other, becoming familiar with likes and dislikes, ticklish spots, pet peeves, Desdemona and Lefty tried to defamiliarize themselves with each other.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

One former official recalls a departing prime minister being peeved there was an "office spruce-up", with walls being freshly painted for their replacement about to arrive.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Apple’s AI missteps, including a botched rollout of a smarter version of the Siri voice assistant, peeved investors last year.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

Recalls a peeved Mr. Blankfein: “It was like the undertaker calling at your sickbed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

When Stracke was late for a recent lunch date, a peeved Beauvais stormed off upon her arrival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

Lysa Arryn said, her voice peeved and shrill with irritation.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

No-one needs point out to Starmer himself that changing the leadership mid-government causes huge disruption to Whitehall and the country by slowing down the government's work and peeving the public.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Vigilante peeving does nothing to actually educate people.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013

Instead of peeving about supposed incorrect usage, they find themselves using better dictionaries, consulting better usage guides, and looking at cost-free high-quality online materials - such as language corpora - to figure it out.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2011

I can't say I was wholly faultless in peeving Governor Reed but I couldn't let him get away with that.

From Time Magazine Archive

I guess he’s afraid now the boy will copy his bad example, and that’s peeving Mr. Phillips.”

From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Frank V. Webster