niggle
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Rogers has impressed under Tuchel, starting five and featuring in all eight of the games the German has managed - though a hamstring niggle could give Bellingham the opportunity to start against Serbia.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
"I think he'll power through even if he has a little niggle," said Brook.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
Mbappe had received treatment for a "small niggle" in his right ankle picked up playing for Real Madrid last weekend.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
The only real moment of concern for the 2021 US Open champion was when she appeared to be bothered by a back niggle in the second set.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
Okay, it did niggle, but it was something I could forget easily enough.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
"I had a slow start to the season, picking up a few niggles on international duty and then being left out of the England squad," he said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue are the spare quicks in the squad after Stokes struggled with various niggles.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2025
At times he looked like Laurel and Hardy's car with various bits of his body looking like they were going to fall off because of his niggles.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
"When you've had such a long period of time out, you have got massive risk of picking up niggles in other areas," Anna Poyser, lead physio at the Lawn Tennis Association, told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2024
Avoiding major injuries - although minor niggles after a long absence may be unavoidable - will be the key to a productive season.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024
She said concerns around the situation have "niggled" her since.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
Although his knee completely gave up on him when the stakes were highest, it has allowed Aspinall to have surgery, solving a problem which has niggled away at him for his entire UFC career.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2023
The exclusion crushed Kral, and something else niggled him.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
With Eddie, he niggled and piggled and wriggled.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
It was only at the very last, as their fingers brushed across the gap, that something niggled at him .
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
It’s all too easy to live with these niggling problems until one day a problem turns into an incident.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
In a maelstrom, one might think such niggling questions of jurisdiction and their attendant turf wars would be set aside.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
On a separate farewell podcast for paid subscribers, Maron and his longtime producer Brendan McDonald explained that the relentless workload was tiring and articulated a niggling feeling that the show belonged to a different era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
The prospect of cuts has helped push world markets ever higher this year, offsetting niggling worries about stretched valuations in the tech sector.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
I got into bed, my legs very weary, a niggling pain in the small of my back.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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