alas
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This, alas, includes me: After freaking out a little about my salad order from earlier this week, I switched to steaming-hot vegetarian noodles from a neighborhood Chinese shop.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Mr. Pappalardo’s “Boomtown,” alas, offers us no such penetrating insights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Just a month after he dropped “Lonely,” Bieber returned to his teen-idol woes — far less movingly, alas — in this dreary duet with Shawn Mendes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
They show only what markets did during the period studied — so, alas, there are no perfect guarantees.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
“Anger. Very nice. Useless to me, alas, but as it is so often a precursor to sorrow, I confess that I do like it.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Vocabulary lists containing alas
"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Selection Vocabulary 2, Unit 1
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4-letter words, List 1
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