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Reconsider your “smart” home: Cameras are becoming more and more common in home appliances, including in smart ovens, refrigerators, doorbells, and toothbrushes—even as people decry surveillance measures in public.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

Officials decry the trespassing as a risky gambit that is wrecking an iconic property they want revived.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

"It's been horrible, there's no support," Castillo, 67, said -- a common complaint among Venezuelans who decry government inaction.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

And those who decry people for asking for help when they have enough money to see them through retirement — on paper — are probably dealing with their own first-world problems every day.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

Speaker after speaker continued to decry the government’s plans.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

While Erika decries “retro sex negativity,” Elliot stammers, “My peers have not been well-served growing up in a time where nothing feels safe or OK.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

But the homeless estimates Pratt decries aren’t something those two have cooked up in a boardroom.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026

As societies transition to cleaner energy, higher efficiency and reduced waste, most of the problems Mr. Ennos decries will solve themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Boyi, who is Black, decries the state’s colorblindness as “a French hypocrisy.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

Better Joe hath suggested some specific remedies, which Isaac the Joiner decries loudly as the cant of heathenish superstition; and indeed, one wonders at the applications of bone.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In response, groups including the Israeli American Council and the Anti-Defamation League decried Macklemore’s performance on social media, with the former creating a petition that called on Sheeran to remove the rapper from the tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Paramount executives and others have decried the delay in deciding whether the deal moves forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Residents in the capital, San Juan, where the taps were turned off on Friday, decried the rationing.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Others decried a hiring environment in which job seekers have to jump through even more hoops just to get a foot in the door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

With postwar guilt, he decried bratwurst, sauer- braten, and Konigsberger Klopse as dishes verging on poison.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Her condemnation followed a slew of public comments from other erstwhile allies of the governor decrying his decision to return to office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

A member of Tupac Shakur's entourage was combative in testimony during the second day of the rapper's murder trial, decrying being forced to take the stand and identify those responsible for Shakur's death.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

You can see dozens if not hundreds of news articles every week decrying the damage that these foods are doing to our health.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

The Chicago-born pontiff has made the defence of migrants one of the pillars of his papacy, like his predecessor, Francis, praising those who help the needy and decrying mass deportations in the United States.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

Or live in my parents’ house forever, decrying the death of the arts?

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon