regret
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"That's a regret to have put my family through because they were living the cancer with me."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Asked about that moment during his postgame news conference, McCarthy expressed regret for the language he used.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those were precious years of work and fun, and we can’t recall anything we regret having not bought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But Haworth offered his view, which he may now regret.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Oh, you’re going to regret saying that,” hissed Cha-Cha.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
Still, there are no regrets about how his career turned out.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
On Thursday, the athlete issued an apology on Instagram, saying she regrets not stepping off the track.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Twenty years later, I have no regrets about any of that, but plenty of hindsight.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Hamilton lets down Claire’s savage hauteur; Mays’ eyes glisten with all the regrets of lost love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
That’s when I said something I immediately regretted: “You didn’t mind spending $100,000 when Mark needed it.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
I asked Cramer if he regretted telling the world about medbeds.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
She told the BBC her comment was "an emotional outburst" that was not intended to be public and that she regretted the tone used.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Nobody has ever regretted making their manager's job easier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Immediately, Barack and I regretted what we’d done.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
In the book, Steinem wrote that one longer-term result of the article was “realizing that all women are Bunnies. After feminism arrived in my life, I stopped regretting that I had written the article.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
“I don’t think anyone is regretting the wars, but maybe we’ll be sorry we didn’t do more,” Winner said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
As in the less conclusive first season, it feels engineered to deliver the characters to happy, or relatively happy, endings, and to send viewers out not regretting their investment of time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
"I will not go home regretting not trying, I will do everything in my power to be in that starting gate."
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
“I am so regretting that I made you watch The Wire. I should’ve guessed you’d be a total doofus about it.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Vocabulary lists containing regret
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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