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  • noun Plural form of nag.

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  • Use the word "nags" at 1 across and the word "newt" at 1 down.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Use the word "nags" at 1 across and the word "newt" at 1 down.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The title nags at me the same way Google does – moral and righteous overtones applied to a company that seems to me to be remarkably amoral I’m not not saying immoral.

    WWJeffD? « BuzzMachine 2008

  • In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation.

    January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

  • In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation.

    Successors « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010

  • DEAR EXPERIENCE: When a partner "nags," the nagging becomes the relationship red herring, soaking up the emotional energy, while the source of the discontent can be pushed aside.

    Ask Amy 2010

  • Eventually I just give up, but always notice it there with my bookmark and it kind of nags me to know I'm not going to finish it.

    The 33% Rule 2006

  • Another point that kind of nags me: if the simulation hypothesis is true, then it really becomes meaningless to say that we may be "artificial life".

    Posthuman Blues Mac 2007

  • If Bertie 'nags' ahern was here €22 billion would be no problem.

    Politics.ie cyberianpan 2010

  • In Windows 7, the new User Account Control slider dialog that appears in the system's new Action Center enables users to turn off the "nags" that bothered them so much in Windows Vista.

    Betanews 2009

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