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 new release appears to reflect a concerted effort to move on from the 2022 allegations, for which Butler apologized while maintaining that the five relationships were consensual.
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Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
Julie, Natty, Belle and Haneul of Kiss of Life are apologizing to fans after a recent live stream drew backlash.
—Jack Irvin, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Despite Eady’s attempt to apologize to Moore after plenty of commentary from her cast mates, coming to the grand opening of the Kenya Moore Hair Spa bearing flowers, the vet ignored her.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 7 Apr. 2025
Google representatives apologized to the web creators and said their sites represented exactly the kind of helpful content that the company wanted to surface in search, according to creators who were in attendance.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
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Jem Aswad, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025
Julie, Natty, Belle and Haneul of Kiss of Life are apologizing to fans after a recent live stream drew backlash.
—Jack Irvin, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Despite Eady’s attempt to apologize to Moore after plenty of commentary from her cast mates, coming to the grand opening of the Kenya Moore Hair Spa bearing flowers, the vet ignored her.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 7 Apr. 2025
Google representatives apologized to the web creators and said their sites represented exactly the kind of helpful content that the company wanted to surface in search, according to creators who were in attendance.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apologize
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Brian Tyree Henry confessed to breaking his own cardinal rule of not returning to television in order to star in Apple TV+’s crime drama Dope Thief.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2025
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Ninety percent of British women and nonbinary people polled in 2020 confessed to sometimes using filters before posting selfies, and 85 percent to using external editing software such as FaceTune to tweak pictures of themselves.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
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Until Henry momentarily excuses himself from the table, that is, and the person or persons behind these winky-wink messages tell her to poison Henry ASAP or the menacing guy currently hiding in her apartment will kill her boy.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2025
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The 2025 Masters is here, and more than Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele will be on display this week at Augusta National Golf Club for all the fans — excuse us, patrons — to bear witness to.—
Hugh Kellenberger,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Figure explains this innovative approach.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2025
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This effect could explain why telescopes detect more galaxies rotating opposite to Earth’s motion than expected.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Mar. 2025
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The myth that trans women are a danger to cis women is a grossly transphobic stereotype with almost no real-world justification, but Rowling pins most of her anti-trans arguments on it, using her experience as a survivor of domestic abuse to justify her prejudice.—
Aja Romano,
Vox,
18 Apr. 2025
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The funding freezes and cuts have been imposed before the completion of full investigations, and different legal rationales have been offered to justify them.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Apologize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apologize. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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