For balance, let me put in a word in defense of the whiners.

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Other whiners quibble about the high costs of protecting those threatened creatures.

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Now Susan Antilla, financial journalist at Bloomberg, affirms for us what we already know but are afraid to acknowledge lest we be branded whiners.

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Somewhere along the way the writing and thinking folks (on both sides of the Atlantic) have ceded most of the public conversation about language to the carpers, whiners and peevers.

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According to Popescu, the stereotype that Millennials are greedy whiners unwilling to pay their dues is a misconstruction of the circumstances into which the generation was born and a misapprehension of the challenges they face.

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So soccer whiners, get over it.

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