gall
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“That young man had the gall to say, ‘You played hacky sack?’” the 46-year-old laughed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
They can range from nausea through to hair loss to more serious and rare complications like kidney issues and gall stones.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
And then he has the gall to justify his expenses by saying that we do need two cars.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
Tucked into the speeches lauding Lee’s accomplishments, more than one supporter called out Taylor for having the gall to go after her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
After Grandpa went back to work just before Christmas, Aunt Loma had the gall to go ask him herself to raise Camp’s pay.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
What galls me is the failure to identify one of the — certainly not the only — bedrock reasons some people go through life with little or no money: mismanagement.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
“It galls me that that gets forgotten, because he’s rewriting the history of what happened on those tapes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
But as much as it galls me to admit it, these gems don't always hold up to adult scrutiny.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Another dogwood leaf may be in service to a different insect altogether: the gall midge, Parallelodiplosis subtruncata, a mosquito-like fly that makes blister galls.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
My own voice galls even me; it oppresses me like a silver fork scraped across porcelain.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Many were particularly galled about a provision in the U.S. plan that extended amnesty for actions taken by all parties during the war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
Still, the 32-hour workweek has galled some taxpayers, said Royce Meyerott, a resident active in local debates.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
But Stone, like others, has been galled by the way the recall has played out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
The block on calls using the popular WhatsApp, FaceTime and Skype applications has particularly galled UAE residents who were separated from families and friends by restrictions during the pandemic.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2021
One Delaware merchant particularly galled him: August Carter.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
IBM’s current predicament is especially galling given it was once at the forefront of AI with Watson, a natural-language computer processing system that won “Jeopardy!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The loss of Shazeer is particularly galling as it is the second time he has left Google.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
All of that must have been galling to O'Neill.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
And that’s not even the most galling part.
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
Most galling to me was when she turned down an opportunity to go to an Ivy League business school after college, deciding that it would be too much work and therefore no fun.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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