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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

Instead, she remembered Jaffe telling her, “‘If you did a perfect variation and didn’t have a good interpretation, I would be sorry for you.’”

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

And he won’t say sorry for that, because his grandpa taught him he shouldn’t be sorry for anything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

"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

I didn’t think that girl could be sorry for nothing.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles


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