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lament

verb as in to mourn or grieve deeply

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Spending the next 10 years lamenting Madigan’s potential snub would be nothing more than reductive, implying that her work is only worthy if it’s awarded by stuffy voters who maintain little respect for horror, anyway.

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After photos hit the wires showing construction equipment at the White House, tearing into the East Wing, critics lamented the lost quarters of the social secretary and the calligraphy office.

In the latest adventure, Obelix -- the menhir delivery man with superhuman strength -- suffers a particularly bad bout of "saudade", and at one point laments: "I'm feeling down while being overjoyed."

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Prince, who has been working with Haiti to target gangs with drones, lamented the “erasure of the Monroe Doctrine” in a podcast earlier this year, arguing “what happens in the Western Hemisphere is America’s business.”

"Jonathan Ross could put a giant 'It's Me' sticker on his head and still not get voted off," lamented one X user.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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