dismay
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Iran voiced "dismay" over Qatar's accusations in a statement carried by state news agency IRNA, calling the claims "unacceptable."
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
The armchair referee system, so far from unassailable, is also unappealable — to U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino’s dismay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Ethics watchdogs expressed dismay this week over the deals.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
There has been dismay at other costs too.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Farmer, Kim, andBayona collected a number of official WHO statements and read them with dismay.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Yet the world's inability to fund more Mosquirix shots dismays many in Africa.
From Reuters ● Jul. 13, 2022
Washington’s high temperature rose into the middle of the 70s, a range that dismays few.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
So it dismays Brandi Hunter Munden, the organization’s vice president of communications, to see people turn to fad diets that she says can pose the same hazards for pets as for humans.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
Charlie dismays at his sister, Sally, saying all she wants “is my fair share,” and at Linus’ sister, Lucy, complaining about her gifts while what she really wants is real estate.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2020
What dismays him most is the irrelevance of it all.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
But the inquest was told she had been "dismayed" to learn Morgan was joining the Blades in February 2023.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
They were also dismayed and confused by the news that green card applicants would possibly have to leave the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
While Mr. Blanche was Republicans’ whipping boy, their real target was Mr. Trump, whose recent interventions in Republican politics have dismayed them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Warsh left the Fed in 2011, dismayed by the growth of its balance sheet in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Impressed as they were with the Kingdom of Kongo, the Europeans were dismayed to find no commodity agriculture here.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Since Shakespeare’s verse for the young lovers is among his most rhapsodic and hypnotically beautiful, the choice is dismaying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The co-owner of the Swiss bar hit by a deadly fire during New Year celebrations was released from custody on Friday after bail was paid on his behalf, dismaying victims' families.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
As the committee chair, Oppenheimer signed the one-page memo, dated June 16, 1945, that came to the dismaying conclusion that “we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
“It is dismaying that so many of them have been forgotten.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
The discovery that we are, as one investigator phrased it, living in a “sea of carcinogens” is of course dismaying and may easily lead to reactions of despair and defeatism.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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