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have wailed

  • present perfect of wail.

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Activists covered in fake blood have wailed during city council meetings in Ojai in recent months, and many more have followed President Biden during his campaign stops across the country.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2024

Oh, Maaare! as Rhoda undoubtedly would have wailed with a mixture of pain, sympathy and gentle reproach.

From Time Magazine Archive

So educators have wailed at the top of their lungs since early in Depression.

From Time Magazine Archive

I would have wailed along with them, but I knew Pa’s mind was set.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia

What she may have wailed, what he withstood who loved her once, I have no care to set down at large.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry