plaint

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Recent Examples of plaint This wry, lovelorn plaint is a cagey display of subtle dynamics and counterpoint on a lone electric guitar. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 This wry, lovelorn plaint is a cagey display of subtle dynamics and counterpoint on a lone electric guitar. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 And to be perfectly fair, the New Deal had seven or eight big years of operation (the plaints about the Supreme Court etc. blocking reforms being so many excuses). Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 Goldberger's plaint is overstated. Michelle Goldberg, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021 The finished song is desolate but resilient, a hell of a plaint. Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022 Somewhere between folk-rock plaint and short story, Margo Price sings about a pregnant woman at a clinic, with a hard-luck past and a tough decision to make. Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022 The company said the decision to close came after the plaint failed to secure any capacity revenues in the latest auction held in May by the grid operator, PJM. Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 22 July 2021 These points are not the most cynical aspect of McConnell’s plaint, however. Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plaint
Noun
  • Studio Nicholas Venezia In Janáček’s Quartet No. 1, the Takács ratcheted up the genre’s conversational quality into high drama, widening the expressive gulf between the opening lamentation and the skittering response.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 2 May 2025
  • Biblical-style lamentations over Israel’s final corruption have been a staple of the state’s critics and die-hard anti-Zionists for 70 years.
    Martin Kramer, Foreign Affairs, 8 June 2016
Noun
  • The complaint says a 58-year-old woman showed up at AdventHealth TimberRidge ER in Ocala with chills, fever and numbness in her hands and face.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 18 May 2025
  • The party started to end in January 2017, when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against Yim and Breathometer, alleging the company misled customers about the product’s ability to accurately measure blood alcohol content.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Augustina and Blessing are proof of that, milling outside the prison walls, caught between madcap laughter and wails of pain — the polarities of grief.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2025
  • War within a war Rosalinda Cabanillas lets out a guttural wail that echoes across the entire cemetery.
    Isobel Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Inside the fence, the atmosphere was oddly peaceful, and sometimes so quiet that the loudest noise was the whine of an overhead drone.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 6 May 2025
  • The motor produces a whine that is noticeable but not distracting.
    William Roberson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Among its grievances, the union is seeking access to safe, clean bathrooms and clearer employee seniority lists, and is concerned with issues like rerouting of trucks, member productivity and terminations.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 May 2025
  • Backlash on the right, motivated by a combination of ideological and ecclesiological grievances, popularized attitudes that questioned the legitimacy of Francis’ authority.
    Liam Adams, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The user's husband initially dismissed the sound as a fox, but as the cries continued, curiosity took over.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 18 May 2025
  • The life of Pope Leo shows that one’s identity and loyalties are shaped by experience, and Leo’s experience is one with deep roots outside of the U.S., closeness to the cry of the poor, and the clear conviction that the best way to lead is through service rather than raw power and fear.
    Raúl E. Zegarra, Time, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • My own experience and reality invalidated and denied, which in her heart today would be a very painful lament.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025
  • This episode was just like that, a lot of quick dancing, jazz hands, and even a lament sung by Shauhin, just for the most boring and obvious thing to happen in the end.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • Ask Them to Tell You Their Stories This lack of acknowledgment underscores a broader societal discomfort with sustained mourning.
    Rebecca Soffer, Time, 10 May 2025
  • Loyola players decided after much reflection and mourning to play Friday’s Southern Section Open Division playoff match against Harvard-Westlake.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025

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“Plaint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plaint. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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