nettle
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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to grasp the nettle.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
But he said not much had happened since because politicians were too afraid to grasp the nettle.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
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
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
“I imagine you could make it up to both Lady Lackless and myself if you found some sweet nettle for the pot tonight.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
In the midst of a mass – or "smack" – of Pacific sea nettles, Mr Pace coated any skin not covered by his wetsuit with petroleum jelly to protect himself from stings.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
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
She shook her head, then went to the table to chop a pile of nettles.
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
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
Last Wednesday, the Huskies barely topped Boston University, 61-59, as they were nettled by the Terriers’ zone defense.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2016
‘What is you griggling at?’ the BFG asked her, slightly nettled.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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
To Larry Masters there was something nettling in the very repose with which his visitor from Louisville crossed his stout and well-tailored legs.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
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