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Many of the Iranian people, even those who deplore the regime, may support the home team in this fight.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Despite the achievements, many deplore the accompanying cost of such urban development.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

Downey, who plunged into tech’s moral gray zones in his “Iron Man” outings, makes it possible for an audience to both deplore McNeal and delight in the abrasive pleasure of his company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

The major corporations that responded to AP’s queries said they deplore human rights violations and environmental damage and would investigate.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

If I found matters to criticize and to deplore, they were tendencies equally present in myself.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

A veteran of Ireland’s war of independence, Moran deplores the political corruption of the 1950s republic from his farmhouse bastion, Great Meadow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Unwittingly, zealous regulators have turned stock markets into the casinos that commissioner Crenshaw deplores.

From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026

In a statement, China's foreign ministry said in a statement that it "firmly deplores and opposes this move" and will "take necessary countermeasures".

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2025

He deplores social media, has renounced email and refuses to sully himself with the online departmental calendar that Bella insists her students use to make an appointment with her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2023

Her best sympathies are with her people, and no one deplores more than she the lamentable ignorance to be found in the remote districts.

From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon

Two major Islamic bodies, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Al-Azhar, issued statements that deplored the hateful rhetoric — but without making clear who had used it.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

Turk also deplored Hezbollah's missile and drone attacks on northern Israel, and urged both parties to stop, immediately.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

She deplored the way local Native Americans were treated by ranchers and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Why, he asked, is that acceptable in politics when it’s deplored in just about every other field of endeavor?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2025

She laughed at Arobin’s pretensions, and deplored Mrs. Highcamp’s ignorance.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The London university paid tribute to Zhe Wang following the verdict, deploring the loss of "a remarkable writer" adding that her work would be published posthumously in an upcoming Goldsmiths anthology.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025

Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

He is liberal of politics, deploring of racism and excruciatingly aware of himself as an outsider.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry later issued a statement calling Paludan an “Islam-hating charlatan” and deploring the fact that he was allowed to stage the demonstration.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

He released sincere public statements deploring the shooting and condemning it as evil.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow