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How to pronounce lamentably
“lamentably” pronunciation in British and American English
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“lamentably” in real sentences
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Lamentably, also, it doesn’t work.
The School of Life
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improve education in Scotland, where they are so lamentably failing.
UK Parliament
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The kind of state education that Scotland gave me is lamentably rare today.
The Scottish Parliament
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way that's so conspicuously and lamentably absent in the UK or the US.
Intelligence Squared
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