nuisance
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For a sport that can take hours or days to play, with batters running up and down to gradually accumulate points rather than rounding bases like in baseball, this was a nuisance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
In a Sept. 5 press release, Bass said she was directing city crews to clean and secure nuisance properties citywide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Shevels, who the court heard was known in the town of Crook to be a nuisance when drunk, annoyed the Greensmith family by sitting nearby and trying to talk to them.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Caused a nuisance for Liverpool's centre-backs all afternoon.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Those symbols are for protection. You have no idea what a nuisance it was to have to keep redrawing them every time you washed them away.”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
In 2017, when Sydney’s father was dying, he hired Sharon Zissman to help pay the household bills and oversee the everyday financial nuisances that he feared would burden his wife and family after his death.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
Ms. Wimpenny is ready to defend mosquitoes, writing, “those bitey nuisances are simply little animals doing what they must to become mothers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
While trail restoration entails abating nuisances like poodle-dog from the pathway, it’s not always feasible to banish it entirely from the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025
But for gulls — sometimes erroneously called “seagulls,” though they are not exclusive to the ocean — they are described as nuisances and pests, which experts say couldn’t be further from the truth.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
‘Of all the confounded nuisances you are the worst, Sam!’ he said.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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