The phrase "as a regret" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward in context.
It could be used when expressing a feeling of remorse or disappointment about a past action or decision.
Example: "I look back on my decision to leave the company as a regret that haunts me."
Alternatives: "with regret" or "in regret."
Later, after losing his job as Yankees manager, Torre would cite that as a regret.
"I would have looked at it as a regret if I didn't try to come back," said Giambi, who went 4 for 33 down the stretch after missing seven weeks because of a benign tumor on his pituitary gland.
"I never look back on something as a regret," Harvick said before practice at Phoenix International Raceway, site of the next Sprint Cup Series race Sunday.
Cuban insisted he did not second-guess his role in the Jordan saga, saying the only thing that qualified as a regret during his time with the Mavericks was his failure to re-sign Steve Nash before the point guard went on to twice become the NBA's most valuable player with the Phoenix Suns.
His point was echoed by Rudy Klapper from Sputnikmusic, who described the song as a "regret-filled apology".
It's not so much a regret as something I wish I had the confidence to wear, but I never have.
Whatever it was like to live through, one can't as a reader regret the immense delay and traumatic contributions of Fitzgerald's life.
We all as a society regret that".
More women than men included "having sex with a physically unattractive partner" as a top regret.
Westley overhauled the squad shortly after the club's promotion to the Football Conference – something which he now states as a "huge regret".
Despite Buckley's own sense of regret at his outburst — a regret that, as the film shows, seems to have followed him to the end of his life — his public activity continued unabated, and his prominence and prestige increased.
