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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

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

Even the most powerful state can push things too far and rankle too many rivals.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 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

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

"Quite often I have to put in 28 February, which rankles, because that's not my date of birth," she says of the problematic dropdown forms.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024

The wrong done rankles heavily in the private bosom.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

While Raymond was said to be conscientious and loyal to close associates, he commanded a mixture of respect and fear, and his demeanor occasionally rankled fellow employees, competitors and outsiders such as Wall Street analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

So some Angelenos are rankled by the fact that these ornate, historic lamps are spewing hospital light across the city that, in most other regards, cares about the way it looks.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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

Even the name suggested grandeur and royal approval, and his living in style there with Sarah Ferguson seemed to represent a sense of entitlement that rankled with the public.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

But plainly he was rankled at having been outmaneuvered on a quest so easily within reach.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The legal news website SCOTUSblog has also begun using interim docket as its default nomenclature, rankling some commentators who accused the site of adopting a term that plays down the real-world repercussions of interim orders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

It did not include any of the three conferences that would balk in meetings the following winter, and it released its ideas publicly, perhaps rankling some others.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 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