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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

But the lack of progress on the issue has started to rankle the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union for officers below the rank of lieutenant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

But Schmidt would know he is highlighting a topic that might rankle with some Lions fans.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025

Maher’s long-running show is a reliable buzz-generator, often for reasons that rankle progressives.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024

I was proud of my sister, but that year, something began to rankle beneath the pride.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

What rankles more is his only international T20 appearance three weeks later, when Ireland plundered 52 from his four overs.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

What rankles most, say many Greenlanders, is that Trump treated their home–which he called “a piece of ice, cold and poorly located” —as a commodity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

His heart still rankles with the outcome of the Boer War.

From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

What really rankled, they said, was that there had been no consultation about placing migrants at the base – or in the town.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Overturning Balogun’s red card has rankled even some American soccer fans, who see the intervention as tainting a U.S. run that had been gathering momentum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Most of those tariffs have since disappeared, but the recent proposal to impose 25 percent tariffs on some Brazilian products for alleged unfair trade practices has once again rankled Brasilia.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

It further rankled the westerners that the prejudices of the East overwhelmingly prevailed in the national press, which often seemed to operate on the assumption that anything west of the Rockies was China.

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

That is rankling the banking industry, which sees the new players as potential rivals that aren’t subject to the same level of regulatory oversight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 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

Those shifts made it harder for many apps to target advertising to users, rankling tech executives including Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

On Wednesday, the U.S. and Taiwan announced they are set to begin formal trade negotiations, and if the trade talks are a success, it will further bolster ties between the two nations while rankling China.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 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