bemoan
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You’d bemoan sluggish opening acts and fret about how that might bite the Bruins in the big games that are looming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
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
For every moment of glory, there is a hard-luck story, a nation left to bemoan their misfortune and the injustices that have led to their downfall.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Around the same time Andrew appeared to bemoan life in damp Britain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Upon thinking of past loves, someone who approaches romance through the heart is likely to bemoan lost opportunities and conclude that he or she will never again love as deeply.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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O'Neill bemoans marginal moments but are Celtic just not good enough?
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 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
Of the French text, Mothersbaugh bemoans the fact that he’s not multilingual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
She bemoans that she had to pay for her interpreter to manage treatment.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2025
His love of art yields to religious hope and fear, and he bemoans a youth and manhood spent in vanity.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
De Zerbi bemoaned Tottenham's decision-making with Marmoush a culprit, blazing over in the second half with Andy Robertson on an overlap and Mohammed Kudus waiting for a far-post tap in.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
“Because a few days ago, when I was riding the stallion, it threw me and I broke both my legs. Again, I bemoaned my misfortune.”
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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At the same time, nothing irritates him more than when a fellow old-timer “starts bemoaning the state of the industry and how things used to be,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Despite critics bemoaning the addition of a Superbowl-style performance , externalto the beautiful game's biggest event, the children's performance alongside global stars Burna Boy and Shakira was viewed by many millions around the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Mark Joseph Stern: The speech is ostensibly bemoaning the progressive movement of the early 20th century, but the New Republic’s Matt Ford has a fantastic piece about how his history is completely wrong.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
"The Olympics only happen every four years and only a very few times in a career," he said, bemoaning the lack of "Olympic atmosphere" in Bormio.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 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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