carping
Example Sentences
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These interventions can irk the grassroots, and there will be some carping over the Daines move.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
In Werde’s view, Swift’s place atop the pop hierarchy makes such carping inevitable.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025
Believe me, I’m completely aware that I sound like a Scrooge, a buzzkill harping and carping about innocuous movies that are meant to be little more than background noise while people scroll on their phones.
From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024
After enough of his students’ carping, however, Hayes decided to put the snakes to the test.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
Three years had passed since Bradbury had offered an almost identical defense to the AEC’s Colonel Fields, but Teller had never ceased carping about Los Alamos.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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