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Organizational issues also rankled, as Zuckerberg began to delegate oversight of Instagram to Facebook loyalists, creating a new layer of management between himself and the Instagram co-founders.

The cynics among us will be rankled at the description of a book as “inspiring,” but Massie is the genuine article.

If it rankled, it was because it forced the audience to take a long look at their own imperfections, their own broken families.

Her dogged willingness to keep the case in the spotlight has rankled authorities—which has only strengthened her resolve.

The promise so rankled the Taliban they issued a statement insisting that Pakistan should reject all foreign aid.

Officers were further rankled when the golfer repeatedly refused to meet with them after the accident.

But in spite of this the neglect rankled, and from that day he was no longer the blindly devoted follower of Napoleon.

Bud would not have talked to any one in his present state of self-disgust, but for all that Cash's silence rankled.

Besides, he was in a rage with Harry; his defeat by the Pool rankled.

A firm trust in His protecting care would have been a balm for every wound which festered and rankled at my heart's core.

But Sarah Maria was watching him narrowly, and as she looked there rankled in her seemingly quiet breast the memory of her wrongs.