apologizing

Being free, she told me, is “not having my name completely cleared, because it isn't. It's not my prosecutor apologizing to me, because he hasn't.”

She texted, called and left a voice message apologizing for abandoning Aldrete, saying, "I had to separate myself from all of this."

Having gone to Ault on scholarship, Lee recalls that “I always felt I was implicitly apologizing for not being sufficiently rich and preppy and privileged.”

One of the things I've read you talking about a lot with this film was that you had to learn to stop apologizing.

Springer, who died in 2023, made a schtick of apologizing for ruining the culture at the end of his life.