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bemoan

[bih-mohn] / bɪˈmoʊn /


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But with the domestic season just starting to get interesting, fans tend to bemoan the interruption - no matter the length - and long for the return of club football.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 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

Rather than bemoan the hours of cycling I was missing, I again thought “downsizing opportunity!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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

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

She's having to rely on her parents to help out, but bemoans the need for them to do so.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

Even the prosecutor touring a buried villa that’s become a crime scene, illegally stripped of its frescoes, bemoans what’s been lost when thieves rob a people of their ancestors’ memories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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

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

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2025

After this, Lucifer appears; after his overthrow, bemoans himself, seeks revenge on man.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

And he bemoaned a rise in public anger "that distorts and corrodes our public discourse".

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

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

He bemoaned the fact that Americans generally made the worst spies.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

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

The transformation of the Khumbu culture is certainly not all for the best, but I didn’t hear many Sherpas bemoaning the changes.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer


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