decry
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Fans around the globe, regardless of rooting interest, have come together to decry a common enemy: soccer’s instant replay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Anti-doping officials decry the event as unethical, irresponsible and dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
It is not enough to decry the damage done by DOGE’s destruction.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 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
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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
She criticizes helicopter parenting, decries remote work and tells women they should be willing to “piss people off” in order to be good leaders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
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
“The people I talked to did not not want police, they just wanted to be treated fairly,” Herbold said, citing the 1990 Public Enemy song “911 Is a Joke,” which decries slow emergency services.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 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
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The Council of the District of Columbia in 2025 rolled back a voter-approved increase in the tipped wage minimum after restaurant customers and tipped workers decried the resulting blow to their pocketbooks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
A decade ago, the EAC decried the influx of second-hand clothing and was primed to impose a ban across its member states.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Indeed, so much has changed that the same chief justice who decried “Alabama’s attempt to remake our §2 jurisprudence anew” in Allen v.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
Warsh, who has long decried “groupthink” at the Fed, may regret what he has wished for.
From Barron's ● May 1, 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
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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
In 2018, he issued his most famous scolding, decrying the court’s failure to take up California’s 10-day waiting period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Even the pope is dropping hot takes on the topic, decrying the “new forms of slavery” that AI threatens us with.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Okonjo-Iweala wants the Yaounde meeting to open the next chapter in multilateral trading, decrying growing unilateralism and the collective failure of WTO's 166 members to reinvigorate the institution.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Even General Smuts realized the dangers of this harsh ideology, decrying apartheid as “a crazy concept, born of prejudice and fear.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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