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The ones in Professor Shugerman’s essay, lamentably, are not even legally persuasive.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2024

On Tuesday this week, a disciplinary panel chairman criticised Ms Lee's "lamentably poor" investigation into the incidents; had she still been a serving officer, she would have been dismissed.

From BBC • May 26, 2023

But, lamentably, spyware system developers persist on an international scale.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2023

Smith is very effective here and in later scenes after Peter escapes, and the actor brings feeling and intensity to a role that is lamentably short of nuance and character insight.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

On the left were four small logs, one of them the farthest lamentably springy.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding