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[nag] / næg /


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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

But I wasn’t going to nag him or even offer myself as an example of what could go wrong.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

You’ve come to know that they’re innocent and yet they’ve spent 20 or 30 years in prison for somebody else’s crime, and so the injustice is really something that still nags at me.

From New York Times Oct. 17, 2021

Something nags at me as I stand there.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

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

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

But the question of what exactly the brief exchange was all about nagged at me for the rest of the day.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2024

Carroll said Friday one thing that could help is second-year running back Kenneth Walker III having finally gotten past a shoulder injury that has nagged him the past few weeks.

From Seattle Times Jan. 6, 2024

I ran out of there and did my best to forget the conversation, but it nagged at me all the way to the river like a tooth beginning to go bad.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

But maybe, just maybe, Marvel fans are feeling a nagging sense of discontent, too.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

She is in her late 70s and complains of nagging aches and pains, neuropathy, fatigue, anxiety, and occasional changes in her weight.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Several anticipate strong cloud revenue growth, though the extent of Oracle’s own spending remains a nagging issue.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

But there will also be a nagging doubt over whether this could go wrong at any moment.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Which was possibly why she hadn’t pushed me to get my photograph made like Auntie Matchmaker had been nagging about.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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