lamentable
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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
“I have no intention of using such a lamentable situation for political reasons,” said López Obrador.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Smartphones have become an indispensable on-mountain tool — although the push to eliminate paper trail maps is lamentable.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023
That was the most lamentable of her numerous frustrated undertakings.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing lamentable
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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