apologize

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Recent Examples of apologize Jackson apologized in the video, and it would be believed that the moment was simply one born from the intensity of the game. James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025 Own it, apologize, and do better. Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025 That shows Davidson freaking out about meeting the queen in order to accept his MBE, finding his inner strength with the help of Dottie to entering the grand hall with a vulgar outburst and charmingly apologizing. Carole Horst, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025 Langley did apologize to the TIFF audience for that narrative choice. Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for apologize
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apologize
Verb
  • While Hadden-Paton was unsuccessful in keeping his dapper suit, his costar, Hugh Bonneville, who plays Lord Grantham, confessed to Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan on Live!
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The suspect was later named as 22-year-old Robinson, and was reported to have confessed to the crime to his father.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • It was announced by the Vikings head coach that McCarthy was excused due to being at the hospital with his fiancée to welcome the arrival of his baby boy.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Likewise, with cameras on the trains in Charlotte, the public could be excused for wondering why there wasn’t a more immediate response after the event.
    Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Here, Renzi explains how long the doc was in the works, why family members didn’t participate, and how Marco of all people helped Sheen to get off crack.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
  • At a time when contentious words dominate our conversations—think insurrection and fascism and fake news and woke—the need for dictionaries to chronicle and explain language, and serve as its watchdog, has never been greater.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In a bipartisan vote, 49 Republicans joined Democrats to repeal the authorizations, which members say have been abused to justify later military actions.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Judge Carreño-Coll further ruled that the plaintiffs had failed to establish that all the ten named defendants, along with various unnamed companies and individuals even had sufficient connections to Puerto Rico to justify the filing of the lawsuit to begin with.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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