niggle

While there was concern behind the scenes at Arsenal about the niggle, they deemed him fit enough to start regularly during their end-of-season run-in.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

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

In 2023, after a succession of niggles, Jack Draper said he hated "being the guy who is injured a lot".

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025

He hasn't suffered repeated serious injuries, like Rhian Brewster, just regular niggles that mean he has not started more than three games in a row all season.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024

"Today we could not use Kevin because he had niggles in his hamstring and I didn't want to take risk," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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

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

He will be targeted which can lead, as it did in Fortaleza in the quarter-final last year, to him being injured, or it can lead, as it did here, to him being niggled into eruption.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2015

Up until the last 10 minutes or so,Wales had NZ seriously niggled and were either level or leading.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2014

Even then Hale’s attitude – that she was claiming to be just as messed up as the teenager she had attacked – niggled at me.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2014

A small sadness niggled at the back of her mind: this meant Joe would not be coming home until the end of the summer.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

During the pandemic, Matthew started looking for answers to niggling questions about his family history.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025

There was, however, a niggling problem: The running premiums on these insurance contracts ate into the short-term returns of Howie’s group.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis