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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

By the time Boyle was released in 1980, he had also become a bestselling author, - but the controversy over the special unit had started to rankle with elements of the Scottish public.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024

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

They eventually went out 4-2 on aggregate following a decision that still rankles today.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

That rankles Tasmanian Aboriginal people like Nala: "It's just a kick in the guts."

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

Yet it is hardly the mere piercing of the skin that hurts us most; it is in the dark night hours when the wound rankles that our agony comes home to us.

From Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

But he didn’t get direct access to President John F. Kennedy—an absurd demand, of course—and this rankled with him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

We lead today with new reporting on the unraveling of Situational Awareness, detailing how its wunderkind founder Leopold Aschenbrenner forged close ties with tech’s top players even as he rankled some of his own bosses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

In one season under Walter, season-ticket price increases rankled Lakers fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Finishing fourth was not a failure but it will have rankled with perfectionist Emery.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

It rankled in him, the way Dick mouthed those two words, as though they solved every problem; it was stupid not to admit that there might be a witness they hadn’t seen.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

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

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