Thesaurus results for BADGERING

badgering

verb

Definition of badgering next

present participle of badger

as in teasing

to subject (someone) to constant scoldings and sharp reminders He's always badgering me about the dishes.

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Recent Examples of badgering The coding craze spread quickly, from parents badgering their kids to drop the English major and opt for a STEM degree—and former President Barack Obama even urged people to learn to code. —

Jake Angelo, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026 Falcinelli continued badgering the officers about his phone. —

Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2026 The future five-time Super Bowl MVP was with his family, sitting five rows from the top of the stadium, badgering his parents to buy him an oversized foam finger. —

Daniel Brown, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026 Not only in badgering a quarterback making his first start or in holding Tennessee without a touchdown. —

Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026 Jason Bateman shines in the scene with the Diamond District connect, fast-talking and badgering this guy within an inch of his life until Mancuso and Babbitt show up to take him out. —

Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025 Impatient investors have been badgering the company for several years to cash in some of its more valuable assets. —

Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 Poor people know the intimate, badgering pangs of hunger, but in Ireland, the memory of the 1845-1848 Famine—the Great Hunger, when one million died from starvation and disease, and another million emigrated—still aches. —

Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025 Trump has been badgering Powell and other Fed officials to cut rates for months, but Powell has said the independent agency isn’t influenced by politics and will do what’s best for the economy. —

Paul Davidson, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025

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Netflix’s live-action One Piece is deep into production on Season 3, with the beloved Arabasta arc taking center stage, a wave of new casting locked in, and stars teasing a darker, more mature tone ahead.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026
Rivian has been teasing the R2 for a while now, dangling the promise of a smaller, cheaper, more attainable version of its beloved R1S in front of adventure-hungry buyers who couldn’t quite stretch to the $77,000-plus sticker of its halo SUV.

— Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 13 Mar. 2026