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as in grievance
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
a warning that if there were any more complaints, we were turning around and not going to the beach after all
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as in objection
a feeling or declaration of disapproval or dissent
the condo development proceeded despite the complaints of the neighborhood residents
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as in indictment
a formal claim of criminal wrongdoing against a person
filed a complaint in court
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as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
takes a slew of medicines for his many complaints
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Recent Examples of complaint
The agreement, which was reached immediately after the Justice Department's complaint was filed, must be approved by a federal judge.
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CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
Allen, who agreed to be named for this story, wrote the complaint Jan. 6 intending to file it in Manhattan federal court, but the suit has yet to be officially filed.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, in failing to verify the age or identity of its users, Pump.Fun exposes minors and inexperienced investors to both financial risk and the explicit material rife on the platform, the complaint alleges.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
The 179-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, named Ms. Lively and Mr. Reynolds, her husband, as defendants, as well as their publicist Leslie Sloane and her company, Vision PR.
—Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
Allen, who agreed to be named for this story, wrote the complaint Jan. 6 intending to file it in Manhattan federal court, but the suit has yet to be officially filed.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 17 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, in failing to verify the age or identity of its users, Pump.Fun exposes minors and inexperienced investors to both financial risk and the explicit material rife on the platform, the complaint alleges.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
The 179-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, named Ms. Lively and Mr. Reynolds, her husband, as defendants, as well as their publicist Leslie Sloane and her company, Vision PR.
—Katie Robertson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for complaint
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Butler’s current seven-game suspension will cost Butler a total of about $2.4 million in salary, although the National Basketball Players Association intends to file a grievance to dispute the suspension in hopes of recouping some of that money.Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
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Despite the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in 2019, remnants of the group and other militias continue to pose threats — with potential for resurgence if political and economic grievances remain unaddressed.James Durso, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025
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The film has been criticized for trafficking in clichés and gender stereotypes, for equating transitioning with death, for presenting it as a kind of moral redemption, for making older cisgender audiences feel virtuous by endorsing it, among other objections.Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2025
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And appeals courts have upheld the gag order over Trump’s First Amendment objections.Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
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The former president, along with Nauta and De Oliveira, pleaded not guilty in a superseding indictment to allegedly attempting to delete surveillance footage at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
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No one is surprised that Republicans asked Hegseth no hard questions — but that’s an indictment of the state of affairs in and of itself.S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
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Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, possibly a million or more, were swept into camps and prisons, with former detainees reporting abuse, disease and, in some cases, death.Dake Kang and Huizhong Wu, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Some people have trouble absorbing this vitamin due to disease, gastric surgery, or medication.Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2025
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When in use, the motor produced a slightly audible whistle/whine.John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024
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Fittingly, its most art-averse detractors responded with an awful lot of whine.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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Cohen is obviously fully on board with Stearns’ philosophy of limiting free agent deals to three years or fewer (the Soto contract of course being the notable exception).Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
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Many companies, with some notable exceptions, are even scrapping their ridiculous DEI programs.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Trump was found guilty in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 8 Jan. 2025
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Trump wrote 34 checks describing these payments as legal expenses, and he was convicted on 34 counts.David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
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Most common ailments aren’t connected to a single gene; polygenic risk scores aim to predict the lifetime likelihood of conditions, such as diabetes, in which many genes contribute to a person’s risk.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Complaint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/complaint. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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