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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of rue.

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  • Later, when oil prices spiked again, in 1990 and again in 2008, causing great hardship and economic disruption, a lot of people recalled the Carter years and rued the lost opportunity.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Later, when oil prices spiked again, in 1990 and again in 2008, causing great hardship and economic disruption, a lot of people recalled the Carter years and rued the lost opportunity.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Later, when oil prices spiked again, in 1990 and again in 2008, causing great hardship and economic disruption, a lot of people recalled the Carter years and rued the lost opportunity.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • According to a Wall Street Journal editorial by Andrew Kohut, Unlike just a few years ago, when the publics of America's oldest allies rued America's power, they are now alarmed by its diminished economic might.

    Blythe McGarvie: The Reluctant Superpower Blythe McGarvie 2011

  • If Albion fans were left debating whether Hodgson's switch to 4-4-2 leaves his side defensively vulnerable, their manager rued his decision not to withdraw the strangely out of sorts Odemwingie.

    Sunderland salvage draw with West Bromwich to calm dissenters 2011

  • Unlike just a few years ago, when the publics of America's oldest allies rued America's power, they are now alarmed by its diminishing economic might.

    The World Says China Will Overtake America Andrew Kohut 2011

  • Then he got in the mood again, and rued having missed that slew of articles.

    Kurt Cobain Is Living As A Homeless Person In New York Daniel Lukes 2012

  • According to a Wall Street Journal editorial by Andrew Kohut, Unlike just a few years ago, when the publics of America's oldest allies rued America's power, they are now alarmed by its diminished economic might.

    Blythe McGarvie: The Reluctant Superpower Blythe McGarvie 2011

  • He claimed his goal was "tinged with a bit of disappointment" and rued the fact that United had only partly exploited their opportunity.

    Manchester United worried by Wayne Rooney injury after draw at Bolton Kevin McCarra at the Reebok Stadium 2010

  • Anyone who learned about the game by reading Bill James and later consuming books like the annual Baseball Prospectus preview to which Mr. Keri was a longtime contributor has surely rued one odd effect of the triumph of their work within the sport: It seems that every time a sabermetrician does something really original, he is hired on by a team, with his work soon receiving a big stamp reading "proprietary" on it.

    The Religion of Prediction Tim Marchman 2011

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