Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who now controls the nation’s largest school system, decries the socioeconomic and racial divisions in the public schools.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

It also decries the government’s freezing of $584 million in research grant funding.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

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