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bemoan

[bih-mohn] / bɪˈmoʊn /


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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

Yet Beijing has continued to bemoan the presence of “moles” and bad apples among its enforcers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 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

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

There were several others, among them Kali’s, and she came to bemoan the result.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Like many chefs, he bemoans National Insurance rises and increasing business rates, but also more local problems like limited car parking and unclean streets, which put off diners.

From BBC Feb. 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

Brinkley bemoans the present colonization of the fashion space by digital media.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2025

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

From Salon Jan. 22, 2025

That is the very thing poor Mr. Roberts bemoans.

From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

London cabdriver Mark Hart, awaiting a fare outside Harrods, bemoaned the foreign-plated “snazzy wagons” he said often take space in taxi-only lanes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 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

But critics have bemoaned the lack of arrests over the past year.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 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

In a video, Dr. Becky marks Employee Appreciation Week by bemoaning how uncelebrated parents’ wins often are.

From Slate May 10, 2026

But she wishes some of those fans had been shopping at her stores on a monthly or quarterly basis in recent years rather than now bemoaning what’s been lost.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 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

Again and again his terrified sources, after bemoaning the Orwellian climate of the book business, beg him for reassurance that they will not be named in print.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

I was bemoaning our plight internally again when I saw Pita, disheveled in her best Sunday dress, and realized we’d had the solution all along.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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