gripe

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

The union's main gripe is that total government spending on NHS dentistry in England has been falling over the past decade, once inflation is taken into account.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Residents in many parts of the Midwest have fewer reasons to gripe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026

After hearing Annabeth gripe about her dad for two years, I was expecting him to have devil horns and fangs.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Eleven years into their relationship, Waidelich has her gripes with the felines: The fur is everywhere, “the litter box is disgusting,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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

He didn’t have too many gripes about them— as parents went, they were pretty decent.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

In perhaps the weirdest admission, Katie Miller griped that her husband wears shoes in the house against her will, which she dislikes because “the kids eat off the floor.”

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

Banks have long griped about having to hold more capital to offset the risks posed by loans, trading operations and other day-to-day activities.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Most people resented this; they griped and grumbled.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

Detroit has spent the season griping with referees, tussling with opponents and piling up 66 technicals, by far the highest number in the league.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Sweeney has been the subject of online griping since her American Eagle campaign debuted.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025

Stanton spoke freely about her own situation, griping about the challenges of raising children and running a household.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling