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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

The major corporations that responded to AP’s queries said they deplore human rights violations and environmental damage and would investigate.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

A veteran of Ireland’s war of independence, Moran deplores the political corruption of the 1950s republic from his farmhouse bastion, Great Meadow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

The Paris Philharmonic said it had filed a complaint over the disruption, adding it "deplores and strongly condemns the serious incidents that occurred".

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Eileen enters, greets the son she hasn’t seen in years and deplores the mess and his beard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

The vetoed section deplores the loss of life of migrants trying to reach Europe, commits to fight trafficking and calls for more work to solve the migration problem.

From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2023

The Cosmist only deplores the scantiness of the proof.

From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake

The author also explores the sleight of intellect practiced by Jefferson, a slave owner who deplored slavery and used his rhetorical skills to cast the cause of states’ rights as a question of liberty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

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

In majority-Christian Mar Mikhael on the other side of Beirut, a 68-year-old grocery store owner also deplored the group's decision to enter the war.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

But clauses which will hand ministers powers to force the break-up of some big estates are deplored by many landowners and their representatives.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

She laughed at Arobin’s pretensions, and deplored Mrs. Highcamp’s ignorance.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

But we tie ourselves in knots deploring how slow and technical and mincing legal accountability can be.

From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2024

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

The flooding was an example of "what we have been deploring for some time," he said, adding that those countries which were responsible for pollution should do more to help those which are suffering.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022

They write books and articles deploring it, fire off letters to the editor, and call in to radio talk shows with their criticisms and complaints.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker