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Unlike Mickey or Donald, though, Iron Man and Captain America have a habit of taking off their suits, which puts those peskily recognizable actors in a position to renegotiate, or simply leave the franchise altogether.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2019

Assayas doesn’t divert his camera eye a millimetre toward anything less appealing and peskily intrusive.

From The New Yorker • May 3, 2019

They also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has peskily harangued banks to cease business practices that treated customers like marks rather than valued stakeholders.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2017

Alas, life peskily does not adhere to apropos fan fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2015

Later, on his way to dinner with Cavett, Brando got into a row with Ron Galella, the peskily persistent photographer whom Jacqueline Onassis had to fend off with a court order.

From Time Magazine Archive