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- noun Plural form of
plaint .
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Examples
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Case's voice, rich and full and aching, is perfectly suited to these kind of plaints, and she swoons and heaves like a flickering '50s crooner in an old black-and-white newsreel.
unknown title 2009
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Her masterwork continues to be her beloved 1993 debut LP "Exile in Guyville," which widened indie-rock's purview to allow for more than just plaints from sensitive and sarcastic young boys.
A Musical Plan of Attack Andy Battaglia 2011
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She remembered, dimly, the blight of hard times in the past, and the plaints of fathers and mothers in those days returned to her with a new significance.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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However, after another 100 years since 1900, the scientific method has caught up with some of the original plaints, so the Austrian school may now have some catching up of their own to do.
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As for the smaller creditors who stood in the way of a deal which would have avoided bankruptcy, I have very little time for their plaints.
Wonk Room » Hedge Funds Sink Chrysler Deal Over ‘An Extra Fifteen Cents On the Dollar’ 2009
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A number of these plaints appeared in my first pet peeve column, written in the 1980s.
Roger Lewis's pet peeves about the District and its architecture Roger K. Lewis 2010
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How could an avowed jazz fanatic be oblivious to the similar plaints once sparked by the music of his youth?
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How could an avowed jazz fanatic be oblivious to the similar plaints once sparked by the music of his youth?
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She put her hands over her ears, closing her eyes tight to shut the angels out, but instead she kept them in; they started up seriously inside her brain, moving into her consciousness and formulating their meaningless plaints.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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She put her hands over her ears, closing her eyes tight to shut the angels out, but instead she kept them in; they started up seriously inside her brain, moving into her consciousness and formulating their meaningless plaints.
Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010
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