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laments

  • plural of lament.
  • present tense form of lament (3rd person singular).

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Laments about the sorry state of the Broadway musical have been piling up for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Laments about not playing complete 60-minute games became more frequent last season.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Laments Hayes-Williams: “How can you celebrate somebody else’s history and not your own?”

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2020

Laments curator Michael Vice: "We have a major failing of the infrastructure, and we can only respond to crises."

From US News • Aug. 19, 2016

In the Laments Kochanowski embodied a wholesome ideal of life such as animated the finest spirits of Poland in the years of its greatest glory, a spirit both humanistic and universally human.

From Laments by Prall, Dorothea