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Legendary basketball coach John Calipari, now at the University of Arkansas, has lamented this new trend of older players staying in college sports for so many years.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

The museum’s chief curator has lamented that “it looks like a postage stamp.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

More than one gardening friend has lamented to him that sweet peas planted alongside a wooden trellis panel never ascended.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

“We’re supposed to be in this thing together,” more than one has lamented.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2023

Hitherto he has lamented the insecurity of a man's hold upon the beautiful, though he has never doubted the reality of beauty and the worth of its worship to man.

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)