as in wails
a crying out in grief
there was a great lamentation on Wall Street when the government's latest unemployment figures were published
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One is the follow-up to 2020’s Lamentations, produced by Shooter Jennings.
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Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2021
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“Lamentations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamentations. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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