pet peeve

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Recent Examples of pet peeve It’s not always taken seriously enough, despite the fact that employees cite office gossip as their number one pet peeve more than pointless meetings, coworkers taking undeserved credit and micromanagement. Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 Over time, listeners gain knowledge of the hosts’ history with one another, interests, pet peeves, and other minutiae. Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 10 Apr. 2025 The media deal, those who know Dolan said, combines two of his pet peeves: a further erosion of team control and another way that smaller-market teams benefit from large-market franchises. Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025 And while some parents understood her pet peeve, others were confused. Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pet peeve
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pet peeve
Noun
  • Use cloud access or a small on-premises system to tackle a high-value optimization or simulation problem where classical methods struggle.
    Yuval Boger, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • In the following years, the early flood warning system that Eastland advocated for – and was once considered state-of-the-art – started to suffer problems.
    Curt Devine, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The details for Alphabet will be necessary, as the stock has been held back by worries that artificial intelligence (AI) will disrupt their search business.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025
  • That has led to worries that demand from AI and the data centers that feed it will strain the electric grid and lead to higher electric bills — a real concern in California, where ratepayers already pay among the highest rates in the country.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2025

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“Pet peeve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pet%20peeve. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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