verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fact
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Lagan Valley party deplores the fact that local Tories have been left out of the new regional Conservative structure.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"The Times" deplored the film's violence.
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The United Nations has issued a statement deploring the continued fighting.
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We deplore the use of violence against innocent people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyway, in the 1970s, there had been strong unions, and everything I deplored had happened in any event.
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But I welcomed the interruption, to the precise degree that Selina deplored it.
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But the statistics that she deplored showed what did happen.
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In New Historicism this awkwardness should not be deplored but seen as proof of the integrity of its methods.
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Second home owners often provide the easiest of targets for those who deplore the creeping urbanization of the countryside.
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Significantly, this was in a review mostly concerned to deplore Eliot's influence on poetic style.