bemoaning
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At the same time, nothing irritates him more than when a fellow old-timer “starts bemoaning the state of the industry and how things used to be,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
Mark Joseph Stern: The speech is ostensibly bemoaning the progressive movement of the early 20th century, but the New Republic’s Matt Ford has a fantastic piece about how his history is completely wrong.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 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
“And in 1962,” I said, looking up from the paper and bemoaning my fate, “the longest grounding of a boy named Jack continues to go unnoticed by history.”
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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