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lament

[luh-ment] / ləˈmɛnt /


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As Brooke Allen laments in “Good Bones,” we are becoming a postliterate society.

From The Wall Street Journal

Musicians have lamented the rise of chart-topping hits made with song generators.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mobile money agent Mirembe Tracy laments that her business in Uganda's bustling capital Kampala was paralysed when the government shut the internet during last week's fiercely contested general election.

From BBC

“It was not in Dooley’s nature to lament his fate, but I was heartbroken for him,” the author writes after one of Mr. Dooley’s many major setbacks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Kashkari had always lamented how Washington didn’t do enough to help the economy during the financial crisis — an insufficient response that, in his view, led to a slow and painful recovery.

From MarketWatch