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Another pet peeve for many are sketchy cycling lanes in a city where 18 percent of all trips are made by bike.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

He said BuzzBallz have "have no recovery route in the current system" and "is a huge pet peeve for our customers and us".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

I don’t know if that’s a pet peeve, it’s a genuine fear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

“It’s a pet peeve with many people,” he told me.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

This is how I find out that Miss McDaniels has yet another pet peeve besides lateness, wasting valuable time, and utter nonsense.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

It doesn’t take much for my inbox to fill up, but when the topic is hotel pet peeves it overflows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

Here’s a look at the couple’s breakups, makeups, parenting, advocating and peeves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Subsequent twists explain why one of my found-footage pet peeves — a score — has so far underlined the action; I won’t say more, to preserve this film’s many sneaky detours.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Instead of getting to know each other, becoming familiar with likes and dislikes, ticklish spots, pet peeves, Desdemona and Lefty tried to defamiliarize themselves with each other.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Apple’s AI missteps, including a botched rollout of a smarter version of the Siri voice assistant, peeved investors last year.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

I loved the scene in which Arthur fires off a peeved response to a hater in his comments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

“It sounds like a competitor’s just peeved that they’re losing market share,” Kershner said, “and maybe they’re grasping at straws.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

Voters attracted to Reform don't come from any one political tribe, but ask pollsters and they share a sentiment – they're pretty peeved with the UK in 2025.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025

She is irritated and peeved and just plain over it, over every metaphor from storm clouds to raging rivers, and she used to love metaphors.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

No-one needs point out to Starmer himself that changing the leadership mid-government causes huge disruption to Whitehall and the country by slowing down the government's work and peeving the public.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Vigilante peeving does nothing to actually educate people.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013

Instead of peeving about supposed incorrect usage, they find themselves using better dictionaries, consulting better usage guides, and looking at cost-free high-quality online materials - such as language corpora - to figure it out.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2011

I can't say I was wholly faultless in peeving Governor Reed but I couldn't let him get away with that.

From Time Magazine Archive

I guess he’s afraid now the boy will copy his bad example, and that’s peeving Mr. Phillips.”

From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Frank V. Webster