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Example sentences for: regretted

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Before reading this book, I didn't quite understand why McCain so regretted affixing his name to an absurd-sounding Stalinist confession.
Rushing home to "add some comfort to the pain and sorrow," Bush regretted that "there's not much to say" and that "all I could do ...
I have never regretted missing any event more.
Starr, as noted, asked for the leak investigation to be put under seal, then publicly regretted his inability to discuss a matter under seal.
Noting that NATO's only comment on the latter event was the passive phrase, "it is regretted," Fisk said NATO wants us to believe that it has reserved its sorrow for the Albanian refugees expelled from Kosovo.