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The defeat and the nature of it will rankle, especially because she was considered a serious challenger for the title.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

That seemed to rankle several of the justices across ideological lines.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2025

Choi plays him accurately enough to rankle his home country’s audience, and believably enough to earn the rapper new fans in the U.S. and elsewhere.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

Winter has been unafraid to rankle city and county officials as she has criticized the status quo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

This time “the stare” began to rankle him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

And that dominion over the means of app distribution rankles other tech heavyweights who are trying to find ways to control their own destiny, including Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

It is clear from speaking to Pochettino that it particularly rankles from his time at Tottenham.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

But what rankles him is not so much the scope of the agenda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

That rankles, and the latest street protests over pay have come from police officers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

If hatred still rankles, open hostilities have ceased.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

The insularity of the “60 Minutes” operation — which has its own suite of offices across the street from the main headquarters of CBS News — has rankled the network’s executives in the past.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Closing arguments centered heavily on Altman's integrity and behind-the-scenes maneuvering that rankled colleagues.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

King was Jackson’s mentor, but this act rankled the civil rights leader’s more senior allies, who viewed it as rank self-promotion.

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026

He’s also felt the pain of insurance-price hikes that have rankled many Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

Because Dana was under eighteen, the authorities weren’t allowed to release his name to the media—a fact that rankled Roy’s mother, who believed Dana’s mug shot should have been plastered on the front page.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

AI companies are rationing their offerings and products, rankling users—a warning sign for a boom that depends on rapid adoption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

The military warning—first reported in the Washington Post, then confirmed in the New York Times—must be particularly rankling.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

But officials from the F.B.I. and Justice Department pushed back this month on specific proposals during their first public appearance on Capitol Hill to discuss the matter, rankling lawmakers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

Bobo’s only misstep other than calling In-N-Out “overrated,” rankling fans of the wildly popular burger chain, came in the season opener.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

When he did find some time to visit me, he was very preoccupied, and I could feel him rankling with anger and with inactivity, but he tried hard to hide it.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey