badgering

present participle of badger

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Recent Examples of badgering 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for badgering
Verb
  • As of this writing, there's no official trailer for Interview With the Vampire season 3, though AMC did drop a teaser teasing Lestat's life as a rock icon.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Emerald Fennell is teasing her film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which garnered significant attention following the release of the trailer earlier this month.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • No kid brother tagging along, pestering him with questions, pushing up on his social circle.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Badgering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badgering. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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