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lamentation

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as in wail
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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“Lamentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lamentation. Accessed 28 Nov. 2022.

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