lament

As performed by Price, Baez and Memphis Mariachi, their version of “Deportee” manages to be everything: a lament, a celebration of the lives lost, a tribute, a reminder.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

Sotomayor’s lament applies with equal force to Landor v.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Hadar writes a blog called The Future Is L.A., which is part love letter to Los Angeles and part lament on unmet potential.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026

In the past, she would lament to her friends while trying to understand her parents' behaviour.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

I fell back onto the sand, groaning as my throat grew tight, as I made the same lament: “Why?”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

In “Remake,” McElwee laments the hope that making “Photographic Memory” gave him, an aspiration that he was depicting his son on the cusp of finding his way through the dark.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

“Sometimes I think I can feel the planet just hemorrhaging under all this greed. Like it’s tectonic,” she laments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

"Blocks of flats are being built where there used to be one- or two-storey houses," he laments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

“We have sometimes shrunk from applying that rule,” Justice Gorsuch laments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

“I have given my husband to die,” she laments, wishing that it could have been her instead.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

This has been whispered about and lamented since the COVID-19 pandemic led to temporary theater closures across the country that have since become permanent, but it is rare to hear it expressed so candidly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Rowlinson lamented that "hundreds" of people had been displaced, adding that many locals had offered spare rooms, bars and restaurants.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Speaking later to a group in the historic White House Rose Garden -- which Trump has remade into a patio similar to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida -- he lamented the lawsuits.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Lawyers and advocates have lamented that this bedrock principle was even up for debate, let alone affirmed by anything less than unanimity among the justices.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

“It wasn’t a cozy gang,” Kamen lamented in a letter to McMillan after the Rad Lab Christmas party that year, attended by scores of strangers.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The brother of the man who passed away when he was 70, having only claimed one Social Security check, was lamenting how he could have used that money to fund his retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The Italian dismissed Djokovic effortlessly on Centre Court 12 months ago - a defeat that left the seven-time Wimbledon champion lamenting his age.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Those in the data center industry are lamenting the state of public opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

In life, she’s the kid who realizes that parents don’t love all their children equally, and instead of lamenting that absence, surrounds herself with a chosen family that values her as she is.

From Salon ● May 20, 2026

Desdemona had to devise elaborate ruses to satisfy him, telling him that our kitchen was the Zebra Room, only redecorated, and lamenting at how bad business was.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides