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- r in a rueful manner
`I made a big mistake,' he said ruefully
- But the mobility and communication is no less potent, as Erap, as Estrada is known, would now ruefully acknowledge.
- Because of that "freaky little slip of the scalpel," as Johnson ruefully characterizes it, he endured seven "nerve-racking" months.
- How many of us have choked back irrational anger, only to ruefully shake our heads later over what might have become something far worse? The news networks understand the tragic .