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bemoan

[bih-mohn] / bɪˈmoʊn /


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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

For every moment of glory, there is a hard-luck story, a nation left to bemoan their misfortune and the injustices that have led to their downfall.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Frustrated drivers have taken to social media to bemoan the lengthy waits at gas stations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 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

This sounds as though I bemoan an older time, which is the preoccupation of the old, or cultivate an opposition to change, which is the currency of the rich and stupid.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

And while he bemoans “the sadness of borrowed dogs,” the conclusion is left to us viewers: That Avedon learned, early on, that the image was everything.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

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

Even the prosecutor touring a buried villa that’s become a crime scene, illegally stripped of its frescoes, bemoans what’s been lost when thieves rob a people of their ancestors’ memories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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

Again and again he bemoans his fate, and weeps aloud and sighs.

From Four Arthurian Romances by William Wistar Comfort

Team boss Frederic Vasseur aldo bemoaned the loss of a potential one-two, admitting he was "frustrated".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

At University of Pennsylvania, students have bemoaned the 100-person limits on parties since the school started widely enforcing the policy last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

One artist bemoaned that she had to “flatten and suppress her real self” to engage her audience.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 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

“Because a few days ago, when I was riding the stallion, it threw me and I broke both my legs. Again, I bemoaned my misfortune.”

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

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

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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