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bemoan

[bih-mohn] / bɪˈmoʊn /


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Purists bemoan some of the recent renovations to bring it up to World Cup standards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

He is not the type to bemoan his lot publicly.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025

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

He went on to bemoan the emphasis on the coverage of polls in campaigns.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 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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