1
as in whine
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
had to deal with an angry customer with a beef about our service
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2
as in muscle
muscular strength
a heavyweight wrestler with a good deal of beef
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as in to complain
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
he tends to stand around and beef for hours about any slight, real or imagined
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Recent Examples of beef
Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
Food prices are on the rise again Many grocery shoppers have seen price jumps in eggs, beef, coffee and non-alcoholic beverages.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Over the past few years, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have beefed about everything from control of the Pink Floyd Facebook page to the war in Ukraine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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This year was largely defined by pop stars who rewrote the rules, genre outlaws who succeeded in new territory and a rap beef that gave us a unifying anthem.
—Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
Food prices are on the rise again Many grocery shoppers have seen price jumps in eggs, beef, coffee and non-alcoholic beverages.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
European politicians are beefing over Emily in Paris.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Over the past few years, David Gilmour and Roger Waters have beefed about everything from control of the Pink Floyd Facebook page to the war in Ukraine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beef
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The ground crew starts the engines externally, filling the air with an urgent whine.J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024
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Reports of this plan were toasted by professional cynics with a similar whine.Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
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In addition to providing a momentary escape from flight delays and restless children, this type of micro-mobility for the workplace also helps build employees’ muscles for choosing the best places to do their work.Phil Kirschner, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The Senate report released Sunday said the company forces workers to repeat the same movements hundreds, if not thousands, of times each shift, resulting in extremely high rates of injury to their muscles and joints.Chris Isidore, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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Girding for battle at USC Pay is at the center of union organizing at USC, where non-tenure track professors complain of semester-to-semester contracts with little job security, minimal or nonexistent raises and moves by the university to cut benefits.Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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If corporate leaders complain about these directives’ effects on their bottom lines, Trump’s team could force CISA to scale back its use of this authority.Eric Geller, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
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In September 2017, the complaint states, Rasekhi arrived unannounced at the patient’s home.Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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The complaint, written by a special agent with the FBI, shed new light on the notebook Mangione was found with when he was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 9.Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Texas is generating by far the most electricity from wind power and is fast deploying battery energy storage.Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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The government typically classifies border protection, medical care, air traffic control, law enforcement, and power grid maintenance as essential.Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Dec. 2024
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This mix of bright green, blue, pink, and pink in a chrome finish by celebrity nail artist Britney Tokyo just screams NYE party.Audrey Noble, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2024
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Over nearly 24 hours on July 4, 2022, Santiago heard muffled thuds and screams from the adjacent cell.Christie Thompson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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The Destroyers are the more controversial picks — wired to disrupt existing institutions, and acting on smoldering grievances against the organizations they've been picked to lead.Axios, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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Donald Trump’s voters were motivated by white grievance, except for the people of color who were motivated by economic anxiety; ultimately, the main issue was the patriarchy, exacerbated by misinformation on long-form podcasts, although of course Harris should have gone on Rogan.Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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The accompanying dispenser easily slices through tape to create clean lines without fuss, and a high volume of positive shopper ratings have earned this tape an impressive 4.3-star rating.Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
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One other final point is that a lot of fuss was made over the female protagonists in Witch from Mercury.Ollie Barder, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Beef.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beef. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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