bemoan
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Arsenal, for instance, used to bemoan its trips to Stoke City, a scrappy, physical team that made set pieces its bread and butter, because it had no hope of winning otherwise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
At some point in your time living in L.A. you’ve probably heard someone bemoan it as a city built for cars.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
He went on to bemoan the emphasis on the coverage of polls in campaigns.
From Slate • Nov. 1, 2024
Talk to most people these days, whether they are inside or outside of politics, and you will hear people bemoan their plight, saying how exhausted they are.
From Salon • Oct. 10, 2024
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
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