as in to confess
to express regret for doing or saying something wrong I want to apologize to you for my rude behavior yesterday. We apologize for the mistake and promise that it won't happen again.
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Recent Examples of apologize The internet was shut down in the country for days, a move that President Samia Suluhu Hassan later apologized to the diplomatic community for and promised would never happen again. —
Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 South Korea’s air force apologized Thursday over the finding. —ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 On Wednesday, Cumming apologized for the post in a statement, a day after the mayor's chief of staff wrote a letter to the city ethics board raising concerns over the post. —Bryant Reed, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 Separately, Nike apologized this week for ad copy at the race that many thought was exclusionary. —Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apologize
Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 South Korea’s air force apologized Thursday over the finding. —ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 On Wednesday, Cumming apologized for the post in a statement, a day after the mayor's chief of staff wrote a letter to the city ethics board raising concerns over the post. —Bryant Reed, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 Separately, Nike apologized this week for ad copy at the race that many thought was exclusionary. —Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apologize
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Audiences were first introduced to Fletcher on season 20 of The Bachelor when Ben Higgins confessed his love for her but ultimately chose Lauren Bushnell over Fletcher.— Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
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Throughout the years, Gaff reportedly confessed to attempting to attack up to 30 women and girls in one day in the 1980s and admitted to raping at least eight of them.— Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
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But don’t excuse Montgomery Steppe or Aguirre.— U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
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Cherfilus-McCormick has denied wrongdoing, excusing the allegations as an accounting error.— Lauren Peller, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Mike Jones of The Athletic explains why the lack of top-tier quarterback prospects beyond Fernando Mendoza limits the intrigue typically expected of NFL drafts.— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
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One final metric that explains the nature of Bromley’s style is their passing sequences.— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
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The act of getting high no longer carries the same inherent tension, legal or otherwise, and the niche genre that stoner filmmakers once built around the drug has struggled to justify its own existence.— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Apr. 2026
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The Stones fired Jones in June 1969 but would have been justified doing so a couple years earlier.— Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Apologize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/apologize. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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