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Even economists, who overwhelmingly deplore protectionism, have long recognized its political appeal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

“Gold, filthy gold! We cannot live without it, yet I confess I deplore the necessity of consorting with our long-fingered friends.”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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 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

Who dares affirm that what man hails as triumph or deplores as defeat will be so accounted when tested by the principles of eternal reckoning?

From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by James Edward Talmage

But, for Jaber, it was preferable to representing a country whose actions he deplored.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

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

Mrs. Highcamp deplored the absence of her daughter from the races, and tried to convey to her what she had missed by going to the “Dante reading” instead of joining them.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

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

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

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow