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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

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

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

We have heard City boss Pep Guardiola and Manchester United manager Michael Carrick bemoan their luck with referees this season.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

You won’t have anything else here.” and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

That is the very thing poor Mr. Roberts bemoans.

From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

Catherine Zeta-Jones recently bemoaned the fact that her two children with actor Michael Douglas, Dylan and Carys Douglas, have faced criticism in their quest to become actors, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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

But others in the bloc have bemoaned the lack of progress on a long-stalled five-point peace plan that has formed the basis of engagement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

“When I left the military, I sort of lost my way,” Taske bemoaned in a thick Aussie accent.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

The transformation of the Khumbu culture is certainly not all for the best, but I didn’t hear many Sherpas bemoaning the changes.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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