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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

He is not the type to bemoan his lot publicly.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2025

Rue and I silently bemoan our bad luck and turn to face her.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

After this, Lucifer appears; after his overthrow, bemoans himself, seeks revenge on man.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

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

For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.

From Slate Jul. 7, 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

Ten kilometres away, Edzel Baylon, a staffer at the Isla Jardin del Mar resort, bemoaned a newly changed landscape that spelled trouble for a destination that touted a white sand beach holiday experience.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 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

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

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 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




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