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decry

[dih-krahy] / dɪˈkraɪ /


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And so people associated with Turning Point USA and the Daily Wire continue to decry Owens and other prominent conspiracy-theory content creators as vultures.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2026

"It's been horrible, there's no support," Castillo, 67, said -- a common complaint among Venezuelans who decry government inaction.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 2026

Anti-doping officials decry the event as unethical, irresponsible and dangerous.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Whether civics institutes will support discourse across ideological lines or mimic the ideological conformity they decry remains to be seen.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

Speaker after speaker continued to decry the government’s plans.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But the homeless estimates Pratt decries aren’t something those two have cooked up in a boardroom.

From Slate Jun. 3, 2026

Your editorial decries the sentencing “a profound injustice.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 19, 2026

It also decries the government’s freezing of $584 million in research grant funding.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2025

“The people I talked to did not not want police, they just wanted to be treated fairly,” Herbold said, citing the 1990 Public Enemy song “911 Is a Joke,” which decries slow emergency services.

From Seattle Times Dec. 18, 2023

Better Joe hath suggested some specific remedies, which Isaac the Joiner decries loudly as the cant of heathenish superstition; and indeed, one wonders at the applications of bone.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Residents in the capital, San Juan, where the taps were turned off on Friday, decried the rationing.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, an Everton fan, decried the plan saying football was not a product in a post on X.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

The Council of the District of Columbia in 2025 rolled back a voter-approved increase in the tipped wage minimum after restaurant customers and tipped workers decried the resulting blow to their pocketbooks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

She has decried revelations of the recent participation of CIA officials in a raid on a drug lab in northern Chihuahua state, saying it was a breach of sovereignty.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

They came home from that expedition, however, to unanticipated public criticism from Sir Edmund Hillary, who decried Hall’s role in the growing commercialization of Everest.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

A member of Tupac Shakur's entourage was combative in testimony during the second day of the rapper's murder trial, decrying being forced to take the stand and identify those responsible for Shakur's death.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

You can see dozens if not hundreds of news articles every week decrying the damage that these foods are doing to our health.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

In 2018, he issued his most famous scolding, decrying the court’s failure to take up California’s 10-day waiting period.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Even the pope is dropping hot takes on the topic, decrying the “new forms of slavery” that AI threatens us with.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Articles appeared in newspapers and blogs decrying the moral decay of girls in general.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray




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