bemoan
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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
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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
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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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