pester
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Brush clearance is required nationwide, but local fire departments rarely pester property owners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
There’s a store chain called Five Below that is designed to maximize pester power.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
And I never needed to pester him for stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
But eventually a friend encouraged her to "pester" her GP for a scan.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2024
On the weekend before I left, I heard Mom pester him about whether he had told the company that he was moving to Myrtle Beach.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
He described Mr Amro as an "anarchist who frequently pesters IDF soldiers in Hebron".
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2023
Now, she said, her family pesters her for festival tickets, and she is preparing to direct a new film to be shot in Saudi Arabia.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
That is, it pesters potential customers on insurers’ behalf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
If she pesters your husband, that’s his problem.
From Slate ● May 29, 2020
He constantly pesters students and teachers to properly dispose of their plastic water bottles.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Snead said he pestered Berry “probably jokingly at first,” before talks became more serious before and after the NFL draft in late April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
He pestered his parents and friends about the risks of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Surely only Williams pestered the woman about it afterwards.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
There is of course the danger that instead of being pestered for a smartphone, parents will find themselves being pestered for a piece of Barbie merchandise - which may be just as unwelcome.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024
Now she endured the indifferent kisses of her grandchildren as if she was being pestered by mosquitoes.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Worn down by pestering, our parents relented and allowed ginger ale at Sunday dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Become a real nuisance and tech boosters will eventually give up, handing the future back to the pestering, teeming masses.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
In mitigation, the court heard Hamilton's messages were "pestering" but not "sexual, threatening or obscene".
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
As she waits for her fiancé, who is delayed by inclement weather, to arrive, her guests buzz around her like candy-colored flies, pestering her.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
No amount of barking and pestering by Old Yeller could get them out.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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