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lamentable

[luh-men-tuh-buhl, lam-uhn-tuh-] / ləˈmɛn tə bəl, ˈlæm ən tə- /


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"Local police and Spain's Civil Guard have begun investigating to try to clear up this lamentable event, in which everything points towards a robbery," read the post.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

It was a Rangers performance so lamentable it had fans leaving Ibrox before half-time - and questions being asked of Russell Martin's future at full-time.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

“It’s a lamentable act that has to be investigated and punished,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters Thursday at her morning news conference.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

Some of them are plodding, while others put on full display the lamentable labor conditions that still dog much of the industry today.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2023

That was the most lamentable of her numerous frustrated undertakings.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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