pesky
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It’s a fun concept—the machine taking on pesky tasks that offer no redeeming mental value—but there’s an important group standing in Big Tech’s way: Big Tech.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
A pesky contact hitter with a high average and propensity for reaching base goes first, while the beefy slugger capable of launching moonshots into the bleachers lives in the middle to drive in runners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Brown-speckled bananas that are soft to the touch, nauseatingly sweet and bring forth a few pesky fruit flies.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
As in both earlier games in this series, the Thunder treated a Lakers lead like a pesky gnat, swatting it away with a casual flick as if it never existed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
The dog, a pesky black Lab named Bark, took quickly to Thomas, hanging at his feet the entire tour.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
Specifically, there’s that pesky hinge, an even peskier flexible screen, and the peskiest of all: wires.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2021
The additions of Ben Revere and Daniel Murphy ease the Nationals’ overload of right-handed hitters, and they make the offense peskier.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2016
Asked about who presented the peskier test in the two-hour match, two-time U.S.
From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2014
He got peskier in faceoffs and more physical on the boards — by Kane standards.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 12, 2012
In the West, the Oklahoma City Thunder added the Perkins piece in the deal with Boston, thereby making themselves a bit tougher inside and a tad peskier to the Lakers.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 16, 2011
One of the peskiest point-of-attack defenders in the country, Harmon was named to four all-defense teams during her time at Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
It also didn’t help that Sunday was Washington’s second game without one of its peskiest defenders in backup point guard Delon Wright, who could be sidelined up to two months with a hamstring issue.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
Specifically, there’s that pesky hinge, an even peskier flexible screen, and the peskiest of all: wires.
From The Verge ● Aug. 11, 2021
Accuracy off the tee and putting have been his peskiest issues, but he still had the Tour’s 10th-best scoring average at the end of August.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
McFay, a carpenter, who had distinguished himself at the previous trial by the melodramatic quality of his testimony, proved the peskiest witness of all.
From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
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"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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