grouses 1 of 2

plural of grouse

grouses

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of grouse

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of grouses
Verb
Nobody grouses about waiting for two scoops of a banana-and-peanut-butter concoction called Fat Elvis. Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grouses
Verb
  • Gimme Credit also complains that a run of acquisitions in both food and beverages have added $5 billion to PepsiCo’s debt in just the first half of 2025.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The President reportedly watches hours of cable news every day, and frequently complains about coverage in real time.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But these complaints do not negate the actual successes of inflation, nor its ability to make truly generic predictions.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The spokesperson did not comment in response to the complaints of harm to public health.
    Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Police said the officers encountered Billings prior to hearing screams at the park.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2025
  • So why does the sight of her, bottle-blonde and clad in a green dress that screams vintage Dream Factory glitz, still give off such deflating Jenny-from-the-block vibes?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Demonstrations first erupted in the country on September 25 over water and power shortages and quickly escalated into an uprising over broader grievances, including corruption, bad governance and a lack of basic services.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Peaceful inmate efforts for change, including a July 2, 1971, letter detailing grievances, had gone unheeded.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Stein’s bedroom adjoined the room where Dodge would visit her lover at night; kept awake by the murmurings and moans, Stein lit a candle and composed a portrait of her host.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Most of these are held in a tent, from which loud, ecstatic moans can be heard for seemingly miles around.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The poem ends with the hero’s burial and the laments of his followers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped holding coordination calls on H5N1 with health providers this spring — a change Chin-Hong laments.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Grouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grouses. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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