nettle
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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to grasp the nettle.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
The trailing tentacles can deliver a painful sting, which Mr Pace says feels more like that of a bee than a nettle.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
“It is the ash of a cord that has been thrown into the fire and burned. Cord just like that ball of nettle twine in the corner.”
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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
"Stinging nettles are a come again plant. Cow parsley, sorrel too. Strangely you can pick a lot of salads now," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
He also had to work to sustain the voracious creatures, foraging daily for nettles to feed them.
From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024
Some are well-known to foragers and farmers market shoppers — nettles, morels, garlic scapes.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Fiver sat trembling and crying among the nettles as Hazel tried to reassure him and to find out what it could be that had suddenly driven him beside himself.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
“He might have added the thought, And why is my life nettled by that question?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
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
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
Perhaps she did not know how much the sides of her intent were pricked by the nettling discovery that she was not the cause of his unhappiness.
From Malcolm by MacDonald, George
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