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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

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

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

You would bemoan Freddy’s death whether you knew him or not, say you were sorry and ask what had happened, like you really cared.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

She's having to rely on her parents to help out, but bemoans the need for them to do so.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 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

In the same ink he bemoans the decadence about him, and declares that the best work was done when he was not there to help it.

From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James McNeill

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

A young lawyer bemoaned his strained finances: “It’s not that I came from wealth; it’s just that I thought by the time I was 36 I’d easily be buying a second home, having a car.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Tottenham's then-head coach Thomas Frank bemoaned the automatic three-match ban, but the club decided against appealing, believing they had no chance of success.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

She bemoaned her fate and challenged her stars as we hung our laundry or scrubbed scales from our fish.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Despite critics bemoaning the addition of a Superbowl-style performance , externalto the beautiful game's biggest event, the children's performance alongside global stars Burna Boy and Shakira was viewed by many millions around the world.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

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 12 children, whose ages stretch from 9 to the late teens, devote themselves to making fun of the parents, bemoaning society’s demise and camping on the beach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

The third years emerged from Transfiguration at lunchtime on Monday, limp and ashen-faced, comparing results and bemoaning the difficulty of the tasks they had been set, which had included turning a teapot into a tortoise.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling