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
Today, however, we come not to bemoan the bad times but celebrate the good times, for the Angels and Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 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
Upon thinking of past loves, someone who approaches romance through the heart is likely to bemoan lost opportunities and conclude that he or she will never again love as deeply.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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