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are apologizing

  • present progressive
    of apologize.
    apologize
    verb (used without object)
    to offer an apology or excuse for some fault, insult, failure, or injury.

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“The producers are apologizing to me, but I want to apologize to you,” Harris Faulkner said Friday afternoon.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2023

And, really, all you can ask of anyone is to apologize and to have them understand why they are apologizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

The organizers of a fundraiser that featured teachers on their hands and knees grabbing for dollar bills at a junior hockey league game in South Dakota are apologizing after the event drew criticism.

From Fox News ● Dec. 14, 2021

That is the issue soccer has to address: not that players are apologizing, but that they feel the need to do so.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

You deliver it with your back to the net, which makes the striker think that you have either forgotten all about the game, or else are apologizing to the spectators for your previous exhibition.

From The Holiday Round by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne