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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
complain .
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Examples
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In an e-mail to the Daily Caller, Palin complained about a Politico article relying on - horror!
The last mulligans for Christine O'Donnell and Alvin Greene? Dana Milbank 2010
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When McCain complained about special deals in a Senate health care reform bill that passed in December and criticized Obama for going back on a pledge to keep negotiations open, Obama shot back: "The election's over."
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Charles Darwin complained quite crossly in his autobiography that, despite many denials, people still kept saying he thought natural selection was the sole cause of evolutionary development.
A valuable onslaught on neo-Darwinist simplicities « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Note that this article says that McCain complained-an objective article would not have used that negative term.
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I love scare tactics by lawyers and Palin complained about all the money wasted on disproving ethics charges, who's wasting money now???
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McCain complained that while every single major reform bill that's been passed in the history of this country has been bipartisan ... there's no bipartisanship here.
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After police pursued the Jeep and it crashed, Hamlin complained of neck and back pain, D.C. police said.
Slain AU professor's Jeep found; driver arrested Dan Morse 2010
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After police pursued the Jeep and it crashed, Hamlin complained of neck and back pain, D.C. police said.
Slain AU professor's Jeep found; driver arrested Dan Morse 2010
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You forgot to mention that, when McCain complained about how he'd never seen such a terrible thing before in the Senate, Senator Carl Levin pointed out that the ten-minute rule had been enforced just a few hours earlier that very day.
Franken takes on Lieberman as tensions builds in Senate 2009
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The modeltestants headed to the beach, where Erin complained that it was deserted.
'America's Next Top Model' recap: Devoting full-time to floating | EW.com 2009
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