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“If she feels she has to do one more cycle because she needs to be sure that she will not be sorry for not trying, we will give her the chance.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Spears, also 42, seems to be sorry for some of what led up to that drama, saying as much Sunday .

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024

“While he may now be sorry for the choices he made and the consequences of those choices, he’s still responsible for them,” Carew said of Kenjar.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2023

"I know for some of you it was a horrible decision on my part, and I will always be sorry for that, but I promise you it was the right one," she wrote on Instagram.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2022

“Highty-tighty! Is that the way you take my advice, Miss? You’ll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you’ve tried love in a cottage and found it a failure.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott




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