regret
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"You may regret for 80 minutes if you watch it, but if you don't, you'll regret it for life," one popular social media post about the film said.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
I would imagine she knows that no single outcome is guaranteed and there is no way to live a life totally insulated from regret or misstep.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
I don’t want to do something that I will regret later.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some residents in the area have profited from the gold rush, only to regret it later, such as farmer Muhammad Amin.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Matt read, “‘The editors of the Cucaracha Voice regret a misleading story published in Saturday’s edition concerning Miss Heidi Kuckenbacker’s class at Irwin J. Sneed Elementary School.’”
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
"Not really," says Brook, on suggestions of regrets over his exile from cricket's most lucrative tournament.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
One of my biggest regrets from my last move was not shopping around for movers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
But station executives did not express regrets about dismissing Lucey, saying in a statement after her ouster: “The revitalization of ‘Good Day L.A.’ has been refreshing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
OpenAI offers some open-weight models and Altman, its chief executive, said last year that he regrets the company’s past stance against the tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
One of the biggest decisions Andy Blevins has ever made, and one of the few he now regrets, never seemed like much of a decision at all.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
In interviews, McClain Delaney said she regretted the vote and that at the time, she didn’t envision the Trump administration carrying out its mass deportation promises.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Asked last year if he regretted voting to confirm Kennedy, Cassidy demurred.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
“I desperately regretted doing this kitchen renovation,” O’Neill, a Seattle homeowner and a public-relations expert, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
She also sidestepped questions about whether she regretted any of her decisions during the uprising.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
When I sat down after the argument, I regretted that decision.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
“I don’t like to go through life regretting anything. I want to make sure I can look back and be like, ‘Hey, I tried it out.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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
Orna Donath's study also finds that for some, regretting motherhood is a feeling that never goes away.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
By the time Halloween arrived, Harry was regretting his rash promise to go to the deathday party.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing regret
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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