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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

For all that he did this season, the Mariners’ failure to reach to the postseason and his own inconsistencies will nag at him all offseason and motivate him through workouts.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

Rab went into the tavern, and when he came back he had permission to take out the landlady’s genteel nag.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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