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apologize

[uh-pol-uh-jahyz] / əˈpɒl əˌdʒaɪz /


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“When boys see the men in their lives communicate openly, apologize when they are wrong, respect others, manage frustration appropriately, and treat women and other people with dignity, those lessons can be incredibly powerful.”

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

And because you’re no longer expecting rejection, there’s also no need to hedge, apologize or ask for less than what you really want.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Yes, it’s so valuable to teach our children to normalize repair and accountability, and to make it not such a massive deal to apologize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"I just wanted to apologize for how things went down the other night," he wrote.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I apologize for not coming these past few nights. I had a dreadful bout of nausea and couldn’t leave my den. I hope I didn’t cause you to worry.”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Plus, fading voter enthusiasm worries Republicans, and Ed Sheeran apologizes to his fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Sent the day before, it apologizes for canceling his stay due to scaled-back capacity during opening week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The young intern who shot us with a tranquilizer dart and then inserted that inexact analysis apologizes.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026

While FaceTiming Paul before she begins filming “The Bachelorette,” Mortensen apologizes for his behavior and tells Paul “save a rose for me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Mrs. Malloy apologizes before Ollie Mae can say anything else.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

He wore tinted eyeglasses and a T-shirt with a line drawing of Chateau Marmont and apologized for joining us with “a mouthful of food.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Asked if he had a final statement before his execution, Howard apologized to Swartout's family, who watched from a witness room, US media report.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Soon after that story ran, Stanford University apologized for using AI to transform the race and sex of a real student in a publicity picture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

OpenAI apologized Monday for not properly responding to the Australia incident, which involved its AI models accessing government websites without authorization.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Besides, if I said something at this point, he probably would have apologized, and I wasn't interested in that.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

“I ended up apologizing to him and explained the situation,” Wilson told reporters after the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Yeah, I’m apologizing to my team for that,” she told reporters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer released a lengthy statement Sunday night apologizing to fans and accepting the findings of an NBA investigation of salary cap violations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Now, Infantino is trying to rescue as much of it as he can by first apologizing for keeping so much of the organization in the dark around the FFE proposal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“I spent the entire morning apologizing to your mother for having spilled coffee all over her white chef coat. She finally agreed to let me buy her another one, and the rest is history.”

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya


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