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The main gripe for the frugal is the proposed budget represents an increase of around 60 percent on the last one at a time when member states have to tighten their belts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

When Mary would gripe, she said, her dad would laugh or “just keep working.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The biggest gripe from VAR detractors is that forensic dissections of game footage take the action out of their high-speed context.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

And this is the primary gripe she has with me—she’s even said as much, despite her list—but with us it’s ever urgent, the big one.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

While I spoke with 20 people for this piece, I received 178 individual responses of all kinds, ranging from shock and awe to relative disappointment to distinctly modern moviegoing gripes.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 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

When he returns to his constituency, Röttgen, the veteran German conservative lawmaker, says he hears the usual gripes about the cost of living and energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

He lived on the first floor and he usually came up to see X when he had a few rumors or gripes to unload.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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

In the early days of Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell, the original sports media provocateur, often griped about former NFL players leaving the field and walking into the booth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025

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

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

My Jilly Bean was gone and in her place was Jillian, who griped about not being able to find any iced caramel macchiato lattes made with oat milk.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

You hear a lot griping about high ticket prices, but artists and promoters set those prices as a reflection of what their costs are.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

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

He kept griping and groaning about losing her cooking—and more important, his ’78 Camaro—for the whole weekend.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan