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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to grasp the nettle.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

Or should it grasp the special administration nettle earlier?

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024

Yet, government after government has failed to grasp the nettle.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024

She sits in front of the fire in her bedroom, drinking a cup of nettle tea from a clay mug shaped like a snake, its tail coiling to make the handle.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

But the khobeza is starting to run out, he said, so he now lives off a soup made from hot water and stinging nettles.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

To get the full effects of nettles, brew the whole plant “low and slow” like a stock.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

There, well before sunset, Kehaar, flying westward down the Belt, spotted the rabbits lying up, all among the nettles and goose grass.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

But the jab nettled a greater insecurity: that pregnant women shouldn't be single.

From Salon ● Aug. 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

I thought it was an innocent question, but Jackson seemed nettled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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

“A lot of the Soviet police are that way,” Garland said, visibly nettled.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

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

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

There was a sense of satisfaction in having located the lady, but there was a distinctly nettling note in the tenor of that little message.

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher