nag
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I don’t want to nag, but neither do I want to be a doormat.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
Then in the script, I'm the nag parent, and Luke Kirby gets to be the fun one, so that nature starts to feed it.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
"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
He also this week said "Yeah" in response to an X message that "No steering wheel nag will be a *game changer* for FSD user satisfaction."
From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2023
With Johnny on the nag and Rab on Goblin, they went to the Common.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
I admire the image, but my conscience nags that one should have to trek halfway around the world to see such a thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Still, it nags, especially given Alvarez’s commitment elsewhere to grungy practical sets and props.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
And every time HBO Max yanks another movie or TV show I love from the platform, a thought nags at me: Chris was right.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2023
What nags at me even now — in fact, it haunts me in some way — is the knowledge that there were real people behind those toxic accounts.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023
The more he follows me, the more he nags me to clear his name.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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
The burden had lifted, never again would we be able to ask the questions that had nagged him for more than a decade.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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
These arguably hairsplitting thoughts nagged at me thanks to my job as a congressional correspondent focused on federal spending.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
This latest discovery of a new and baffling rhyme concerning moonlight, the north and an unknown threshold nagged at his brain.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Despite her national profile, there remains a nagging suspicion that she lacks an internal compass and the courage of her convictions.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
SYDNEY—The Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised interest rates Wednesday in what appeared to be a tentative move by policy makers to combat nagging inflation pressures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
One factor nagging SpaceX investors is the company’s plan, confirmed on Monday, to offer senior unsecured notes to raise cash and pay off a $20 billion bridge loan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
But Henry was superb, nagging away with wicketkeeper Tom Blundell up to the stumps.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
I tried to go to sleep, but a question kept nagging me.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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