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Recent Examples of mea culpa
Harrison was away for twice as long and, unlike Aaronson, did not indicate a passion to continue at Elland Road with an immediate mea culpa on day one of pre-season.
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
In private, your mea culpas are easily given and with a good partner, they are quickly forgiven and forgotten.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
Both have appeared to tone down the tension, with Musk issuing a mea culpa days after their relationship imploded.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 13 June 2025
The mea culpa came via LuPone’s social media accounts Saturday after more than 600 members of the Broadway community signed an open letter condemning the three-time Tony winner’s controversial comments about Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 31 May 2025
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Beren Cross, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
In private, your mea culpas are easily given and with a good partner, they are quickly forgiven and forgotten.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
Both have appeared to tone down the tension, with Musk issuing a mea culpa days after their relationship imploded.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 13 June 2025
The mea culpa came via LuPone’s social media accounts Saturday after more than 600 members of the Broadway community signed an open letter condemning the three-time Tony winner’s controversial comments about Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mea culpa
Noun
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The fallout has prompted apologies from high places.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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The video — which has since been taken down by the TikToker, who issued an apology — captured his final moments after Miller reached the summit and then had trouble getting his gear bag unstuck on a jagged edge below.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Restoring trust means delivering results, not excuses, through mandatory ethics training for all city staff to ensure accountability.—
Miami Herald Staff,
Miami Herald,
8 Oct. 2025
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But no more excuses—for me or for you.—
Erika Owen,
Architectural Digest,
7 Oct. 2025
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Those human qualities help break down walls between him and Eve, played with great spirit by Lee as a genius holding onto her sorrow.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Oct. 2025
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The work contains sonorous bouts of sorrow, but rage is its primary register.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Jane Goodall’s passing is a moment of profound sadness.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Multiplying forms of addiction, proliferating mental illness—in the midst of the Iraq War, with the Cold War paradigm dead alongside the USSR, and the Regan 1980s in the rearview, the United States of the 00s was marked by a pervasive sadness captured in Wallace’s prose.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the central Tennessee community that is home to the plant is grappling with a wave of grief as 16 families try to make sense of the tragedy.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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Zhao is in London promoting her newest film Hamnet, starring Irish talent Mescal as William Shakespeare and Buckley as his wife, Agnes, who are thrown into contrasting experiences of grief following the death of their young son, Hamnet.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Oct. 2025
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Cowley has suffered financial losses, lost time, anxiety and emotional distress because of the data breach, according to the complaint.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Oct. 2025
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With presidential elections not scheduled until at least 2027, however, Chetouane said the country is currently avoiding idiosyncratic distress.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Mea culpa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mea%20culpa. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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