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Recent Examples of mea culpa
Shannon Sharpe has issued a mea culpa after the three-time Super Bowl champion mistakenly broadcast an intimate moment to his 3M Instagram followers.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
In many ways, most of the updates in Black Ops 6 feel like a series of mea culpas to regular players who have seen many of their favorite features get lost in the perpetual sequelization of the franchise.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2024
So finally, the Kelly family took down all of the videos related to the shoe hack—and replaced them with their mea culpa.
—Tanay Howard, Parents, 12 Aug. 2024
And because any mea culpa would risk undermining the party’s legitimacy and its right to rule unilaterally, nothing of the sort is likely to occur so long as the CCP remains in power.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
In many ways, most of the updates in Black Ops 6 feel like a series of mea culpas to regular players who have seen many of their favorite features get lost in the perpetual sequelization of the franchise.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2024
So finally, the Kelly family took down all of the videos related to the shoe hack—and replaced them with their mea culpa.
—Tanay Howard, Parents, 12 Aug. 2024
And because any mea culpa would risk undermining the party’s legitimacy and its right to rule unilaterally, nothing of the sort is likely to occur so long as the CCP remains in power.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mea culpa
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The final report outlined 138 recommendations, including calling for public apologies from New Zealand’s government, as well as the pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury, heads of the Catholic and Anglican churches, respectively, who have condemned child abuse.Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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On whether Samuel owes him an apology: There doesn’t need to be.Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Johnny Rockets Drown any potential sorrows in a free milkshake with an in-store purchase.Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Many of those recollections contain notes of sorrow.Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
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This is a wisp of a premise — aside from her muted graffiti efforts, our protagonist’s grief manifests itself more as general moodiness than anything particularly tangible.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Comedy is a way for not just professional entertainers to process that existential grief, but a tool for anybody working through this massive threat to our democratic system.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2024
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While climate denial allows people to protect themselves from feelings of distress, terror management theory suggests that denying death is just the tip of the iceberg.Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
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Twigs’s success over the years has been used as a tactic by LaBeouf’s legal team to undermine her accusation of emotional distress.Arimeta Diop, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Mea culpa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mea%20culpa. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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