as in boo
used to express sorrow or distress
alack, it's true—the only good restaurant in town is closing!
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Interjection
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Highlights include a costume parade (for kids and parents), a Purim story and boo Haman and songs.—
Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2024 -
Volunteer yourself to help with X, Y and Z accommodations if that lightens the family’s workload, without saying boo about the couple’s choices.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
18 Jan. 2024
Interjection
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Christmas doesn’t stop news from happening, alas, and this past December the glass hive buzzed.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
2 Jan. 2025
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By the late 1990s, alas, broadcast networks, beset by cable offerings, began moving away from original movies.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
Interjection
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Studies of fathers have generated some alarmist headlines over the years, and Hrdy has kindly collated them: no dad joke: fatherhood shrinks the brain; aw, nuts!—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
30 Mar. 2024
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And then … aw, just cue up the video player for the epic Francisco Lindor homer that won this thing!—
Jayson Stark,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Alack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alack. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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