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His decision to quit is regrettable.
It was a regrettable mistake.
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His pathetic anger parallels Allen’s regrettable career trajectory.
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
But there were other regrettable incidents in which the culprit may have been simple human error and the ordinary bureaucratic disarray of any sizable public school.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2024
But there were other regrettable incidents in which the culprit may have been simple human error and the ordinary bureaucratic disarray of any sizable public school.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2024
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“Regrettable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regrettable. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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regrettable
adjective
re·gret·ta·ble
ri-ˈgret-ə-bəl 
: deserving regret
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