bemoan
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Many professors bemoan cheating but tend to do little about it, often claiming that students who cheat only harm themselves by not really learning the material.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
We have heard City boss Pep Guardiola and Manchester United manager Michael Carrick bemoan their luck with referees this season.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
And in several anonymized survey responses shared exclusively with Salon, parents didn’t bemoan their offspring as being anything close to lazy or entitled.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025
At some point in your time living in L.A. you’ve probably heard someone bemoan it as a city built for cars.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
You won’t have anything else here.” and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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