apologiae

noun

variants or apologias
plural of apologia
as in apologies

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apologiae
  1. apologies
  2. excuses
  3. justifications
  4. defenses
  5. explanations
  6. arguments
Noun
  • With apologies to Shelley, maybe designers are the unacknowledged poets of the world.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
  • With apologies to Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland is our greatest teenage Spider-Man.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 31 July 2026
Definition of apologies
Noun
  • Kiffin understands that excuses aren’t going to fly, even if some are valid about recruiting during a time when coaches were traveling back and forth from Oxford to Baton Rouge.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The Galliano incident had nothing to do with Israel or the kinds of excuses some people are using today for antisemitism.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of excuses
Noun
  • At the center lies carceral safety politics—logics that turn fears of violence into justifications for punitive responses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
  • His shows were cancelled for what writers for Ynet and Haaretz considered questionable reasons, among them alleged pressure from Netanyahu’s allies, although the networks involved named other justifications, including financial ones.
    — Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of justifications
Noun
  • The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday its air defenses overnight intercepted 553 Ukrainian drones over 18 Russian regions, as well as occupied Crimea and the waters of the Azov and the Black seas.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The trouble starts when saliva gets past the body’s defenses—through a bite or into an open cut, for example.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of defenses
Noun
  • Each of these explanations could have been folded into other lines of dialogue or phone calls or literally anything else instead of being spelt out alphabetically so Twitter can’t point out a plot hole.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • While official explanations have been absent regarding Aubrey’s departure and the circumstances that preceded it, its mysterious nature evokes the similarly abrupt exit of his predecessor, Shivaun Nurre, three years ago.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of explanations
Noun
  • Dallas appellate attorney David Coale, who has handled appeals for decades, told CBS News Texas after the trial that Anthony's team could have several strong arguments over whether the trial was handled correctly.
    — CBS Texas Staff, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Paul Schmidt, a Covington & Burling trial attorney representing Meta, contested O'Neill's arguments, and disputed the notion that Meta executives misled the public with their statements about child safety.
    — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of arguments
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