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bemoan

[bih-mohn] / bɪˈmoʊn /


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Consumer groups heard all of these companies bemoan how tariffs on China and other Asian countries, in particular, meant they would have no choice but to raise prices.

From MarketWatch Aug. 22, 2026

The return of the wolf in California has been met with joy by conservationists, who delight in the improbable population rebound, and with fury by ranchers who bemoan the toll on their cattle.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

Having pocketed their windfalls, survivors and those caring for injured vets would have incentive anew to bemoan their sacrifice and demand redress.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 18, 2025

He is not the type to bemoan his lot publicly.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2025

Rue and I silently bemoan our bad luck and turn to face her.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Sheinbaum regularly bemoans what she views as “fake news” maligning her leadership.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Wall Street bemoans Mamdani’s win, Trump threatens Jay Powell again, and the Bezos-Sanchez wedding is flashy and splashy.

From Slate Jun. 28, 2025

He is absolutely not on his own but when Amorim bemoans a failure of his side to score, Garnacho is at least partly responsible.

From BBC May 22, 2025

She bemoans that she had to pay for her interpreter to manage treatment.

From Salon Jan. 22, 2025

She laments his absence, fears he has forgotten her and bemoans her loneliness.

From Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India by M. Frere

One artist bemoaned that she had to “flatten and suppress her real self” to engage her audience.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

President Fernández turned up at Rosales’s funeral, and bemoaned that one of the suspects in the case had been repeatedly stopped by police before the killing but remained free.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Some see a dark irony: Five years ago, an exasperated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador bemoaned that a corrupt customs regime had allowed organized crime to take over land and maritime ports of entry.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Although Europeans bemoaned the lack of salt in Indian cuisine, they thought it nourishing.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A father who lives next to a golf course is bemoaning the number of wayward balls that hit his home and says a child could end up in a coma if they were hit.

From BBC May 28, 2026

In a video, Dr. Becky marks Employee Appreciation Week by bemoaning how uncelebrated parents’ wins often are.

From Slate May 10, 2026

But she wishes some of those fans had been shopping at her stores on a monthly or quarterly basis in recent years rather than now bemoaning what’s been lost.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2026

Regis Le Bris' side showed why they sit eighth with a dogged first-half showing that left the Arsenal crowd again bemoaning a lack of creativity from open play.

From Barron's Feb. 7, 2026

Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; groaning: My sin, my terrible God; screaming with pain, muttering with fever, bemoaning old age and poverty—how can they tend the wheels?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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