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
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
"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
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
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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
Unwittingly, zealous regulators have turned stock markets into the casinos that commissioner Crenshaw deplores.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
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 European Parliament resolution said it "deeply deplores" this comment.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2023
What happier result could be expected from their new joint work than that which posterity deplores in The Cap and Bells?
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
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
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
They deplored what he’d said, but felt he had a right to express himself.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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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