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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

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

Anderson's future as a Test cricketer has been the subject of debate for years, but England have finally grabbed the nettle.

From BBC ● May 10, 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

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

Though we try to work around the stingers to avoid the rashes they produce, nettles can be handled safely and have many anti-inflammatory benefits.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

Not doggily, but carefully, in case she swatted me into the nettles.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

Being of a large size, the tentacles of B. crassicornis exhibit in great perfection the adhesive powers produced by the nettling threads which proceed from them.

From Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley