as in mourns
to feel or express sorrow for
he invariably spends more time bewailing his predicament than trying to fix it
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The Chicago Fire Department mourns the loss of a 30-year member who died today during a training exercise.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026 -
The family behind Jimboy’s Tacos mourns its president.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
11 May 2026
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The song, which Diamond wrote with Alan and Marilyn Bergman, laments the cooling of a romance in language as direct as the music is florid; the recording, as the story goes, came in response to a homemade edit by a radio programmer eager to hear the two stars sing together.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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Barbara Deer and her son Kaleb died in a murder-suicide, officials said, sending shockwaves through Chicago political circles as the city’s West Side laments the losses in one of its most prominent families.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps Sylvie now regrets her time in Moscow, even the tenor of her politics.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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There’s a lot Jessi Draper regrets.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
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“Bewails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewails. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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