gripe

The main gripe for the frugal is the proposed budget represents an increase of around 60 percent on the last one at a time when member states have to tighten their belts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

When Mary would gripe, she said, her dad would laugh or “just keep working.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Gains are gains, of course, so investors beating the S&P 500 have nothing to gripe about.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

In the 1980s and 1990s, the gripe was “stick to reading, writing and ‘rithmetic,” which implies hostility toward expanding those lessons to more complex ideas like literary analysis, critical thinking, and higher math and sciences.

From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2026

“Should someone invite Shawna? I feel like she might need a gripe session more than us.”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

I often hear gripes by defenders of tech companies that regulation will stifle innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

It’s a “three-ring circus”: the merits docket, the shadow docket, and the justices’ increasingly public intramural snipings and gripes.

From Slate ● May 30, 2026

This was an increase from just over 70,000 in 2020-21, with one of the main gripes about poor response times.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

The announcement of Dudamel’s first New York season, while praiseworthy, brought an earful of gripes about his speaking in platitudes from hardcore New Yorkers unimpressed by uplift.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

I listened to their gripes and just smiled.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

Neither of these merit calls to the Federal Communications Commission, but past complainants griped about less.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2026

Throughout this season, fans have griped about apparent false starts that officials have missed by the Eagles on the play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

“The system here is broken on many levels,” she griped in a statement.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

“In America, art is always paid for by somebody and griped about by somebody else,” Klaus opines late in the novel to Di.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

My Jilly Bean was gone and in her place was Jillian, who griped about not being able to find any iced caramel macchiato lattes made with oat milk.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Erewhon, which opened as a pop-up about a week later also elicited excitement and some griping, with critics saying the space would be better served by a less expensive option.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

The 56-year-old native of upstate New York left his first term on the board prematurely in 2011, griping over policy differences.

From Barron's ● May 12, 2026

There was much intra-Senate grousing and griping and bickering in the days preceding Friday morning’s vote.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2026

That same year, Life magazine quoted an unnamed member of a symphony orchestra griping that Sinatra actually had the temerity to tell them what tempos he wanted his arrangements played in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

Jonah knew that they were almost at school, that the bus around them was filled with kids laughing and flirting and teasing and griping and even—here and there—singing.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix