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
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
Having pocketed their windfalls, survivors and those caring for injured vets would have incentive anew to bemoan their sacrifice and demand redress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
He is not the type to bemoan his lot publicly.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
Rue and I silently bemoan our bad luck and turn to face her.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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Sheinbaum regularly bemoans what she views as “fake news” maligning her leadership.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
He is absolutely not on his own but when Amorim bemoans a failure of his side to score, Garnacho is at least partly responsible.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
She bemoans that she had to pay for her interpreter to manage treatment.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2025
She laments his absence, fears he has forgotten her and bemoans her loneliness.
From Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India by M. Frere
One artist bemoaned that she had to “flatten and suppress her real self” to engage her audience.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
President Fernández turned up at Rosales’s funeral, and bemoaned that one of the suspects in the case had been repeatedly stopped by police before the killing but remained free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Although Europeans bemoaned the lack of salt in Indian cuisine, they thought it nourishing.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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A father who lives next to a golf course is bemoaning the number of wayward balls that hit his home and says a child could end up in a coma if they were hit.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
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
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
Crying: My baby, my mother, my only, only love; groaning: My sin, my terrible God; screaming with pain, muttering with fever, bemoaning old age and poverty—how can they tend the wheels?
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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