One guy in cargo shorts and a battered Ramones T-shirt kept casting dirty looks at the sky, clearly annoyed at the thumping of the TV news helicopters — there were at least three overhead at all times — drowning out his commentary.
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Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Sep. 2026
What annoyed me the most, though, was the way the meditation teachers talked, which tended toward New Age–isms in passive voice.
Instead, Keefe was soon pulled over by Milton police who said the employee had called 911 to report that he was being followed and harassed.
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Irene Wright,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2026
The haters have hacked the store’s website, harassed its hosts, spread rumors about its owner, and threatened to show up in force in front of its physical store.
Some of the details have irked school officials because the act caps conference membership at 19 teams and requires schools moving between conferences to spend five years as an independent.
—
Jim Turner,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2026
But Trinity's focus on its bottom line also irked many Republicans, including Mantello, who was the City Council president at the time.
Many economists believe that final round of stimulus relief overheated the economy and fed inflation, which has vexed the American public for the past five years.
—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2026
For decades scientists and researchers have been vexed by a sound emanating from cats.
The indictment revealed that prosecutors had bugged the Aisenbergs' home for three months after Sabrina's disappearance.
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Curran Rastogi,
ABC News,
10 Aug. 2026
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, a law-enforcement agency known as NABU, had bugged Mindich’s apartment in Kyiv, and detectives picked up his conversations about Fire Point.
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