regretted

past tense of regret
as in lamented
to feel sorry or dissatisfied about we regret any inconvenience that we may have caused you

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Recent Examples of regretted When that conversation became a Rolling Stone story, Canada regretted it almost immediately. Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024 Engadget further reported that regretted attrition, or workers choosing to leave the company, occurred twice as often as unregretted attrition, or layoffs and firings, and that only one out of three new hires in 2021 stayed with the company for 90 or more days. Bhakti Mirchandani, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 Looking back, Steve Crocker, one of the engineers who worked on the design of the Internet, regretted not taking security into consideration. Tom Donilon, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2022

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“Regretted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regretted. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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