gripe

That was Ainsley’s chief gripe about him: “He said he cared. He said he listened. He didn’t mean any of it. He used me.”

From Salon ● May 22, 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

Her biggest gripe was having to cook at home almost every day after work.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Every NFL player, coach and fan has something to gripe about when it comes to the NFL’s officiating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

“What’s your problem, boy? You got a gripe with Mother Paula’s? To be honest, you look like a kid that enjoys a good pancake.”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Though his wife and I had been in the same women’s book group, I’d known Eric only through the wry gripes we’d all made about our husbands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

Look to one of the usual gripes about Palantir: its stratospheric valuation.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

If he gripes about the way she handled Thanksgiving, then he has to prove he can do a better job.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Some traders had griped that such markets were a sucker’s game because the shows are usually recorded before a studio audience several hours before airtime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2026

He never griped that he was pitching on short rest, or pitching with a bum arm, or pitching with a terrible offense and an untrustworthy bullpen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025

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

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

It was something she never would have done on her own, but I had pushed and griped and hollered too much and she thought it time to give me a lesson.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

Plenty of Kobe Bryant fans began griping online about the Heat’s tactics, which they said sullied a legendary evening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Some of the pieces in the book written before this real-life catastrophe, though, suffer from the rote world-weariness of the columnist accustomed to griping to order.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

We made it to the safety of the kitchen with her looking around in alarm and griping at me the whole way.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly