regret
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Difficult financial decisions often come with a mix of regret and relief.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
With dinner already half-imagined, I could pass the tomatoes and melons without treating each one as an alternate future I might regret abandoning.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Evans said the town did not have "a single fishing boat" anymore, which she said was a "matter of regret not celebration".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
If you were planning a trip to Japan, we regret to inform you it just got more expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I knew,” he says, his voice filled with regret.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
One criticism Wilson admits she regrets in retrospect is her take on Nolan’s race-neutral casting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
OpenAI offers some open-weight models and Altman, its chief executive, said last year that he regrets the company’s past stance against the tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
The new levies received swift condemnation from target countries, with Japan saying it "regrets" the duties and Australia's trade minister calling them "unjustified."
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
McElwee refuses to scrub the truth from his personal histories, choosing instead to confront his own regrets head-on.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Walking along in the silence, he had no regrets.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
“I desperately regretted doing this kitchen renovation,” O’Neill, a Seattle homeowner and a public-relations expert, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
She also sidestepped questions about whether she regretted any of her decisions during the uprising.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
But she started rethinking the estrangement years later, and regretted taking the advice, after having children of her own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Cher Arabalo, a former Denver sheriff captain, said she moved to the town in 2022 and promptly regretted it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
The minute I said that, I regretted it.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
“I don’t like to go through life regretting anything. I want to make sure I can look back and be like, ‘Hey, I tried it out.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Coady-McCombs said she had heard of customers regretting taking part in the bottomless sessions after feeling pressured by friends.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I don’t think anyone is regretting the wars, but maybe we’ll be sorry we didn’t do more,” Winner said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
As in the less conclusive first season, it feels engineered to deliver the characters to happy, or relatively happy, endings, and to send viewers out not regretting their investment of time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Frank figured Reyna was regretting her decision to let him join.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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