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dismayed

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verb

past tense of dismay
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Perhaps contrary to the expectations of many American observers, even Putin was somewhat dismayed. Fiona Hill, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2021 Biden’s performance left some of his supporters in entertainment stunned and dismayed. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 June 2024 WikiLeaks’ publication of the Afghan War Logs, for example, was done with little vetting to obscure the names of Afghan civilians who had provided information to the U.S. military, an omission that dismayed human rights groups and U.S. national security officials. Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 25 June 2024 This 1909 discovery would net Rutherford a Nobel Prize, but Rutherford was rather dismayed at his discovery’s implications. Big Think, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for dismayed 

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