dismaying

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• Platforms like Facebook and other businesses whose revenue will take a hit from lost ad dollars have reacted with anger and dismay, while the opt-out means that marketers will have a tougher time targeting consumers efficiently.

• It is only in the chapter on the Many-Worlds Interpretation that he voices his dismay.

• The further you get from Wall Street, the deeper the dismay about the state of the economy.

• Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s classic 2003 novel Oryx and Crake refers to a time when “there was a lot of dismay out there, and not enough ambulances”—a prediction of our current predicament.

• To the dismay of many public health experts, that remains a question up for debate in the United States even as the coronavirus pandemic rages on.

• All of the officials interviewed expressed dismay about the possibility that direct payments were made to the group.

• The angsty, hazy mind of a teenager is a source of constant befuddlement and dismay for full-grown observers.

• And then there's a boy of about 16 (who, to my dismay, has no involvement in the show) wearing a hat made of aluminum foil.

• What can we do except to throw up our hands in dismay at the baffling nature of life?

• The humility of Joseph to accept this news when most would have responded with incredulity and dismay.

• Liszt looked at it, and to her fright and dismay cried out in a fit of impatience, "No, I won't hear it!"

• From mere regrets he was passing now, through dismay, into utter repentance of his promise.

• But even such reproof may be carried too far as on one occasion I found to my dismay.

• He gave so violent a start, his face expressed so much of apprehension and dismay, that I stared at him blankly.