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- verb Present participle of
rue .
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Examples
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Phelim O'NeillPresumably anyone even remotely involved with professional dance is already rueing the day Natalie Portman stepped into a tutu and pioneered the pas de deux of doom, but it does mean that interest in ballet is on the up.
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If you are doing the pants option, you must ruthlessly decide between the necklace and the earrings you have them both with you to prevent you from rueing the fact that you left the other at home.
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel Tina Gaudoin 2011
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With the recent YouGov Poll in mind, McStalin must therefore be rueing the praise being lavished upon him by his fellow Europhiles.
Archive 2008-06-15 2008
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But Falcone – along with his glamorous, Spanish Harlem-born wife Lisa Marie – may now be rueing the highly visible public image that they built up during those boom years.
Hedge fund boss who humbled HBOS heads for a fall Edward Helmore 2010
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With the recent YouGov Poll in mind, McStalin must therefore be rueing the praise being lavished upon him by his fellow Europhiles.
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Part 2 has me buying some unknown fruit in a frenzy of curiosity and immediately rueing it – I should have listened to great teacher Baloo!
Bento #102 – Lessons in Life are best taken from Bears « Were rabbits 2007
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I'm sure he will be rueing the day he ever started in on this meme.
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First of all, can I join with any others in rueing the day that some people discovered the phrase "ad homininum attacks?"
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Glenn won and went on to the Senate; Metzenbaum followed two years later, winning Ohio's second seat, and rueing the day he ignored his campaign chief's advice: "He is a hero, you can't touch him."
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Yes I have finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt after all these years of staring at it, starting it, stopping it, taking it on holiday, dumping it in Las Ramblas and then rueing the day ever therafter as all and sundry made sure to tell me it was "the best book I've EVER read" ... or ... "oh yes, my favourite book of ALL time".
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