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as in mourns
to feel or express sorrow for
a statement from the bishops deploring the loss of life in the war overseas
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as in regrets
to feel sorry or dissatisfied about
deplored the fact that his guests were seeing his apartment at its messiest
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As the community mourns the teen, investigators are still determining what caused his death.
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The passage echoes Whitehead’s response to 9/11, as Carney mourns the neighborhood that the Twin Towers would supplant.
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Will this turn into a tragic mistake Daemon soon regrets?
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But another also exists where whoever acquires Duren regrets the salary they’ll be saddled with going forward.
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Age has finally caught up with them, Amy Nicholson laments.
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James Jeansonne, who works in marketing at a company in Columbus, Ohio, laments the loss of Spirit.
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“Deplores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deplores. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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