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[dih-krahy] / dɪˈkraɪ /


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And so people associated with Turning Point USA and the Daily Wire continue to decry Owens and other prominent conspiracy-theory content creators as vultures.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 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

However, all writers about them, from Romans to modern zookeepers, decry their irascible temper and their nasty habit of biting people.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

The letter, obtained Friday by The Times, decries the vague internal missive the academy sent to its members Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

In one of the controversial tweets, Gascón herself decries the academy’s own initiatives in language Musk would applaud.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

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

The hours-long stand-off escalated on Monday night as demonstrators decried the sentencing of Kosovo's former president, Hashim Thaci, who was last month sentenced to war crimes committed during the 1990s war for independence against Serbia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 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

He decried the inaction of the government, which he said should have "raised awareness among young people on the dangers of irregular migration" and on disinformation on social media.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

In it, the committee decried the fact that the abuses of the Palmer Raids went well beyond physical mistreatment.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

Detainees have reported worm-like creatures in their drinking water, launched hunger strikes, and signed onto class-action lawsuits in recent months, decrying poor food, sanitation and medical care.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

Predictably, Auburn’s faculty has responded with howls of outrage, decrying these intrusions on the faculty’s authority over academic operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026

Vernesha's brother has made some statements, defending Tariq's character and decrying the general wrongness of how this whole thing went down.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon




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