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Recent Examples of gripe
Noun
The question is in reference to Shapiro’s viral YouTube review of Wicked — 19 solid minutes of him gushing about the film interspersed with minor gripes about orchestration and Ariana Grande’s performance as Glinda the Good Witch. Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Jan. 2025 Talks are ongoing as some congressional Republicans gripe in private that their leaders are behind on the negotiation timeline. Audrey Fahlberg, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
When Uecker gripes about baseball legends like Mickey Mantle lowering society’s collective standards by doing TV ads for jock itch ointment, Brooks mimes barfing into his coffee cup, but Uecker keeps going, unfazed by one of the funniest men on earth. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2025 The president-elect, who will be sworn in later this month, has also griped about flags being half-staff during his inauguration because of the 30-day mourning period for Carter. Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for gripe 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gripe
Noun
  • Families fall asleep to the thump of nearby airstrikes and the constant whine of an Israeli drone overhead.
    Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The ragged metallic roaring scream of a Boeing 727 ascending eastward, a high-pitched whine building to a thundering roar, fading to a drone.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • At first, he is annoyed by mundane details like listening to the same song or ordering the same breakfast.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Though visibly annoyed, the driver asked the OP to move.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has complained about China’s rising influence over the canal.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Some consumers have also complained that bulk billing arrangements can burden them with a single, subpar internet service that costs more.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Two spa businesses in Baltimore told the Banner that Tucker had been banned immediately after complaints were lodged against him.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with her complaints and agreed that the government has a duty to protect a prisoner from violence and acknowledged the particular vulnerability of trans inmates.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The devil will persist in bothering Martin Luther until the bald-headed monk dispatches him by hurling a bottle of ink.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Imagine if the press covered all of that without bothering to even question it.
    Jeremy Gruber, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • While being average maybe does not quite scream iconic Survivor player at full volume, perhaps that is exactly the point.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Read Next National Deputies rush to save screaming kids trapped outside burning Colorado home.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Naturally, Sally’s moans capture everyone’s attention.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • And most people do not have just one thing about their skin that bugs them or just one sign of aging, and laser stacking is meant to address that very fact—with a treatment protocol that’s deeply rooted in Korean culture, explains Dr. Chang, who visits Korea several times a year.
    Taryn Brooke, Allure, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Impact Impact, another word that bugs me to no end, is in my top three words to drop.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024

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“Gripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gripe. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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