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
They'll leave with brilliant memories of days and nights together, of wins on the road that bonded them, of a series won, but Saturday will nag away at them forever.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
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
“You know, taking care of my body more, being more aware. Like whenever there is a nag or something, you’re right on it. That’s made a big difference.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
“Mordred wouldn’t nag, as you call it,” interjected Agravaine, “if you didn’t bully.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
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
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
Little Fifi nags that she wants to go, and finally her mother gives in.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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
Murray, who was nagged by a strained left calf during the first-round series against the Los Angeles Lakers, has been bothered by right elbow pain in the past.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
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
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
A poem called “Maggot” about why kids who get picked on get picked on nagged at me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Ohtani’s nagging knee problem creates the most uncertainty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
As his mother’s grief and legal battles to get Fadi home worsen her mental health, Sattouf’s own life is upended by high school, hormones, heartbreak — and a nagging uncertainty.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
It said that, in many cases, this was done through "prolonged nagging and with unpleasant and condescending language".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
But all the time the idea kept nagging at her.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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