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as in to mourn
to feel or express sorrow for
she lamented the loss of her beloved pet to a degree that went way beyond words
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as in to regret
to feel sorry or dissatisfied about
the youth lamented not having spent more time with his late grandfather
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as in wail
a crying out in grief
the national lament that was heard when the beloved singer perished in the crash
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as in whine
an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment
the actress' lament that there aren't enough good roles for women
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Recent Examples of lament
Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Dec. 2024
Guthrie lamented that bigger policies, like reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry, will not be included.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
But in Judge’s intentionally crass lament (which somehow becomes more prescient and troublesome by the day), our rampant national boorishness and stupidity was sort of the point.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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President Joe Biden lamented the attack in a statement released Saturday.
—Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Dec. 2024
Guthrie lamented that bigger policies, like reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry, will not be included.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
Opponents lament diverting taxpayer funding from public schools to private ones and point to examples of misuse of funds, like buying dune buggies.
—Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2024
But in Judge’s intentionally crass lament (which somehow becomes more prescient and troublesome by the day), our rampant national boorishness and stupidity was sort of the point.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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Residents of the town set flowers in front of a nearby church to mourn those who died Friday night.Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Dec. 2024
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Abrams is mourning the end of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour How to watch 'SNL' on Dec. 21?Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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Winners and losers: While the Vikings set up a huge Week 18 showdown with the Lions in Detroit, the Seahawks will regret certain losses as it was eliminated from playoff contention despite winning in Week 17.Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
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Your brother probably regrets ever going on a hike with you.Maureen Mackey, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Cue more sofa wails and pitying looks at family gatherings when relatives ask you about your love life.Olivia Petter, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024
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Digital was the future, analog was doomed to extinction, the plaintive and few wails from people like me that analog sounded better drowned out in the digital thunder.SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
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The hand drums, played here by Keith, make this one spooky dirge.Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
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Following long minutes of silence, a dirge of bagpipes began streaming from the church, suddenly growing loud as 10 pipers emerged with a corps of drummers behind, playing on as pallbearers rolled the casket out.Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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Fittingly, its most art-averse detractors responded with an awful lot of whine.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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Moreover, as the ramp winched open, the pilots would have experienced a sudden drop in temperature and heard a deafening roar above the whine of the Skyvan’s engines.Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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The present moment demands resolve and affirmative thinking from the foreign policy community about how to sustain and reinforce the international order, not just lamentations about Trump’s destructiveness or resignation about the order’s fate.Jake Sullivan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2018
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No such resourcefulness is evident in Tesori’s score, which wavers between mid-century film-music heroics and sentimental lamentations, with tame avant-garde gestures popping up here and there.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Against Notre Dame, the collective moan in the Coliseum with yet another last-minute loss because of Riley’s poor play calling was the breaking point for this lifelong Trojan.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Lament.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lament. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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