decry
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Fans around the globe, regardless of rooting interest, have come together to decry a common enemy: soccer’s instant replay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"It's been horrible, there's no support," Castillo, 67, said -- a common complaint among Venezuelans who decry government inaction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Anti-doping officials decry the event as unethical, irresponsible and dangerous.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
It is not enough to decry the damage done by DOGE’s destruction.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
However, all writers about them, from Romans to modern zookeepers, decry their irascible temper and their nasty habit of biting people.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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But the homeless estimates Pratt decries aren’t something those two have cooked up in a boardroom.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who now controls the nation’s largest school system, decries the socioeconomic and racial divisions in the public schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
It also decries the government’s freezing of $584 million in research grant funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
The Directors Guild of America on Thursday joined other film industry groups in publicly coming to Holland’s defense, saying it “champions creative expression through the art of filmmaking and decries the recent attacks” against her.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Better Joe hath suggested some specific remedies, which Isaac the Joiner decries loudly as the cant of heathenish superstition; and indeed, one wonders at the applications of bone.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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After the final whistle, striker Mehdi Taremi thanked the adoring crowd but decried the impact of the war on his squad, from absent staff to grueling travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
A decade ago, the EAC decried the influx of second-hand clothing and was primed to impose a ban across its member states.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
He decried RIH’s pleas for relief in Rhode Island’s federal court as “flagrant attempts to avoid compliance with lawful orders” designed to “circumvent the authority of this court.”
From Slate ● May 19, 2026
Speaking during an Easter Vigil on Saturday, the pontiff called for "a new world of peace and unity" and decried the divisions created by "war, injustice and the isolation of peoples and nations".
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
As a former educator, Garfield decried the nation's high rate of illiteracy, particularly in the South, revealed by questions in the 1880 census asking if a person could read and write.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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You can see dozens if not hundreds of news articles every week decrying the damage that these foods are doing to our health.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
In 2018, he issued his most famous scolding, decrying the court’s failure to take up California’s 10-day waiting period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Even the pope is dropping hot takes on the topic, decrying the “new forms of slavery” that AI threatens us with.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
She slammed "the unilateralism we have been seeing", decrying the "collective failure" of WTO members over the years to confront their concerns and frustrations.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Articles appeared in newspapers and blogs decrying the moral decay of girls in general.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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