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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

Sarah Feinberg, the acting administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration at that time, said railway chief executives had griped about the advisory, saying elements of it were unnecessary.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

The American racers, earlier in the week, had griped about the misaligned priorities of the Hahnenkamm’s exclusivity apparatus.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Partly to make more supplies avail able for relief, but also because the meat-hungry U.S. had griped so long about Canadian abundance, Canada reimposed meat rationing* this week.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Hume means everything to us. Unless he recovers quickly and regains condition we won’t have much chance,” Ulbrickson had griped to the Associated Press a week before.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown