nag

If you emailed David, however, you’d have to walk across the office to nag him into looking at it.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

I don’t want to nag, but neither do I want to be a doormat.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025

"Richard was incredibly keen on transplants and he used to nag me, 'what do you want to do?' and I was a bit wishy washy about it and wouldn't really answer."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

Still, in the weeks and months following the decoder experiments, the unsettling implications of the device began to nag at him.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024

He doesn’t feel this always, just enough to nag at him, settling over his thoughts like a web.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

These portrayals were part of an even longer history of depicting wives as nags and harridans, a narrative device that can be found in the Old Testament.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

They tend to start quietly—an elbow that aches after the range, a shoulder that nags during the backswing, a wrist that feels tired late in the round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

Still, it nags, especially given Alvarez’s commitment elsewhere to grungy practical sets and props.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

That’s why figures like Shaper, Stockwell, and Fillmore are accused of being finger-wagging nags, while doctors like Ellison are smeared as industry pawns jeopardizing public health for financial gain.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2023

‘Salim and your Aunt Gloria have a strange relationship, Ted. For all that she nags him and he backchats her, I think they are close.’

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

As summer enters its final laps, at last I have the answer to a question that has nagged at me for more than half a century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Hugh was advised to monitor his symptoms but Rachel "nagged" him to return to the doctor for further tests.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

That thinking was present last week, when general manager Brandon Gomes announced that utilityman Tommy Edman will undergo surgery to address an ankle injury that nagged him for the second half of this past season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025

And when I returned in the fall of 2023 to watch Pretzel again, the feeling nagged at me that maybe I could.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025

Mrs. Cranston nagged Mr. Cranston until he had one of the new telephones installed under the front staircase, where it rang its head off.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

We’d hang out in the Goldilocks Zone, far enough away from home to avoid nagging responsibilities but close enough to sell to my overworked parents.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

The pressure on the PC market isn’t exactly a shock given that surging memory prices have been a nagging issue all year, and one that was broadly expected to slow demand for laptops.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

But the investments have raised a nagging question among some doubters on Wall Street: is Nvidia helping to inflate an AI bubble?

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Still, he tried to ignore the nagging feelings.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

“All right, then,” surrendered Katie, suddenly aware that she was nagging and ashamed of herself.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith