pester

• “I note that although a pest may pester you, the word pester originally wasn't associated with the word pest in any way.”

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• “The Brits call it "pester power," which sounds more refined, but comes down to the same thing -- making it more difficult for parents to instill healthy eating habits in their children.”

  The Huffington Post: Susan Linn: Let's Tell Big Food to Stop Acting Like Spoiled Kids -- and Stop Inciting Real Kids to Nag for Junk Food

• “Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's Colby College and co-author of Packaging Girlhood.”

  USA Today: Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls

• “If we ignore them, then they pester, which is fine with me, because I'm really good at forgetting to do stuff like that.”

  StarTribune.com rss feed

• “Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' " says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's”

  USATODAY.com News

• “If that were to sit and kind of pester a little bit more, maybe a little bit closer to the central Gulf of Mexico, we would be more concerned but at this point, it shouldn't be too much of a terrible issue.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2008

• “ABC: Well the whole thing about 'pester' power for children which advertising of course colludes with so often, that needs challenging.”

  Interview: The Good Childhood Inquiry

• “His new neighbors were not too neighborly; they did not do what he would have termed "pester" him by running in and out of the shop at all hours, nor did they continually ask favors.”

  Shavings

• “That was the place where Ned hung it when he wanted to "pester" me; he did it with an old rake handle.”

  Aunt Madge's Story

• “You can set when an alarm is triggered precisely, and even set it to 'pester' you -- go off several times over a specfied period so you can't miss it!”

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