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v. - Annoy persistently.

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Usage examples (35)
  • I note that although a pest may pester you, the word pester originally wasn't associated with the word pest in any way.
  • "Marketers have a phrase called 'pester power,' " says Lyn Mikel Brown, an education professor at Maine's
  • ABC: Well the whole thing about 'pester' power for children which advertising of course colludes with so often, that needs challenging.
  • That was the place where Ned hung it when he wanted to "pester" me; he did it with an old rake handle.
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