nettle

On Friday, Burnham, whose father has Alzheimer's, said he was "prepared to grasp the nettle" to make changes adding, "the system's broken".

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

He said the government would "finally grasp the nettle on social care reform" but that it "would take time" to devise a model fit for the future.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting is promising "to finally grasp the nettle on social care reform", with an independent commission due to begin work in April.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2025

In “Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen,” Olson shares dishes like elk chili beans, nettle tortillas, blackberry-braised smoked salmon and nearly a dozen recipes featuring acorns.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024

Curled against itching nettle leaves, Omakayas eased her hand to her leg to scratch.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.

From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024

Cook freezes them in ice cube trays, using them as sauce starters or in pesto, while Herrera makes cream of nettle soup by blending nettles with baked potatoes, milk, butter, garlic and concentrated chicken broth.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024

Working on a rooftop farm in Brooklyn expo sed me to nettles.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

Anna, still bent over the nettles, turned her head.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

“He might have added the thought, And why is my life nettled by that question?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

The speeches nettled officials and brought him unwanted attention.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

There’s a nettled rejoinder from George: “That’s a matter of taste. All down the line, people have liked my songs.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2019

The jolt of seeing him there where, only a few minutes before, I’d felt safe from observation nettled me.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019

The prison authorities refused permission for me to go, which nettled the nurses, and as a result, they decided to hold their party in my room, insisting they could not have their party without me.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

It is a far cry from the downtown encampment in Ottawa, where 18-wheelers blocked off city streets, aggravating local residents and nettling the police.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022

It's the very speed at which something so artful in design, so ironic in idea, turns so tedious that is so nettling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2014

But it is a rare playgoer who has no nagging, nettling memory of property or money lost, or of a move not made.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a particularly nettling irritant just as the U.S. was deeply involved in making some hard decisions about its monetary policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you will not assist us in nettling our enemies a little for their absurdities and impositions, let me entreat you, however, to let us alone, and to make no remarks on us.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor