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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

Despite the achievements, many deplore the accompanying cost of such urban development.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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

In a statement, China's foreign ministry said in a statement that it "firmly deplores and opposes this move" and will "take necessary countermeasures".

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025

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

He deplores with me that one of the aristocracy should be a cause of scandal.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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

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

Here is where Pence, who could have simply stopped by deploring antisemitism, ultimately falls into the same trap as his former boss.

From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2022

He released sincere public statements deploring the shooting and condemning it as evil.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow