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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
decry .
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Examples
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Most Americans are paying LESS taxes this year and the debt he decries is due in large part to the Iraq invasion debacle – which Bush never even counted as an actual debt.
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Braid designer (and former Best of SVGL winner) Jon Blow again decries "pandering to the player's demand for mastery," and calls "pretending to give you a challenge and letting you win and giving you bright colors and sound effects to celebrate the fact that you won," "disturbing."
Archive 2008-02-01 SVGL 2008
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And, yes, we know that by citing anonymous sources, we are playing into the very "lamestream media" tactics that Palin decries.)
Sarah Palin: Thin-skinned, smartly strategic (or both)? Chris Cillizza 2010
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I think it's incorrect to say that Pinker "decries" determinism in this paragraph or in any other graph in the piece.
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The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Global Partnerships has stepped up to answer in good deeds the microfinance misdeeds which Yunus decries.
Jonathan Lewis: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering Jonathan Lewis 2011
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He decries "people eager to take advantage of the vulnerable" and, bowing to the reality of investor avarice, calls for stricter governmental regulation.
Jonathan Lewis: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering Jonathan Lewis 2011
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Turkle turned dystopian with her new book, Alone Together, which decries machines' disrupting human relationships.
Digital Anthropologist Kashmir Hill 2011
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He decries "people eager to take advantage of the vulnerable" and, bowing to the reality of investor avarice, calls for stricter governmental regulation.
Jonathan Lewis: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering Jonathan Lewis 2011
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Global Partnerships has stepped up to answer in good deeds the microfinance misdeeds which Yunus decries.
Jonathan Lewis: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering Jonathan Lewis 2011
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