as in regretting
to feel sorry or dissatisfied about
I rue the day I agreed to this stupid plan
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Recent Examples of ruing
That left Pep Guardiola ruing City’s sudden inability to put the ball in the net.
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Sam Lee, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Sam Lee, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruing
regretting
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The team, annually regretting letting Jessie Bates walk out the door after 2022, finally paid up to provide stabilization to the back end manned with underachieving Band-Aids for three seasons.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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But the city fathers of Philadelphia, regretting 1926 and determined not to miss the next opportunity, had begun planning for the Bicentennial in the nineteen-fifties.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Ruing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruing. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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