deplore
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Many of the Iranian people, even those who deplore the regime, may support the home team in this fight.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
Critics deplore the fact that the undisputed growth has only benefitted a small portion of the population and has been accompanied by a spiralling cost of living.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
Downey, who plunged into tech’s moral gray zones in his “Iron Man” outings, makes it possible for an audience to both deplore McNeal and delight in the abrasive pleasure of his company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
"There were no legitimate grounds for the Burkinabé authorities' decision. We can only deplore it," spokesman Christophe Lemoine was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2024
If I found matters to criticize and to deplore, they were tendencies equally present in myself.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Martin Bertao, president of College Republicans of America, said the organization deplores antisemitism and disputed the membership of the young man appearing to salute in the photo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Unwittingly, zealous regulators have turned stock markets into the casinos that commissioner Crenshaw deplores.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
He deplores social media, has renounced email and refuses to sully himself with the online departmental calendar that Bella insists her students use to make an appointment with her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023
The European Parliament resolution said it "deeply deplores" this comment.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2023
We subsequently find that it is this sort of "Whitmania," rather than that Swinburne deplores, which pervades the vicinage of the poet's home.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
Two major Islamic bodies, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Al-Azhar, issued statements that deplored the hateful rhetoric — but without making clear who had used it.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Turk also deplored Hezbollah's missile and drone attacks on northern Israel, and urged both parties to stop, immediately.
From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026
Why, he asked, is that acceptable in politics when it’s deplored in just about every other field of endeavor?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025
In 2024 Mr. Dawkins himself, while in no way confessing religious belief, deplored the increasing influence of Islam in British life and said he counted himself a “cultural Christian.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
“Yes,” Lee said from the doorway, “and he deplored it. He hated it.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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The London university paid tribute to Zhe Wang following the verdict, deploring the loss of "a remarkable writer" adding that her work would be published posthumously in an upcoming Goldsmiths anthology.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025
He is liberal of politics, deploring of racism and excruciatingly aware of himself as an outsider.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry later issued a statement calling Paludan an “Islam-hating charlatan” and deploring the fact that he was allowed to stage the demonstration.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
He released sincere public statements deploring the shooting and condemning it as evil.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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