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plaint

[playnt] / pleɪnt /








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Mr. Cole, who seems proud that his Banana Ball has a family tree, echoes a common plaint among non-baseball fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Instead of breaking something open, and for all its self-conscious daring, “Beau Is Afraid” stays in a relatively safe lane as one more Portnoy-esque plaint about Mom’s inhumanity to man.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

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.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

In “Send In the Clowns,” for example, he couched the famous plaint about missed romantic chances largely in the language of the theater, because the character singing it is an aging actress:

From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

“Goodman Whittlesley, will you repeat your com. plaint for this assembly?”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare


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