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As early as March 2012, Goodyear had deplored NRC as a "loose federation of institutes."

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2013

In a telegram to Damaskinos, Attlee himself had deplored "right-wing excesses."

From Time Magazine Archive

Swiss farmers, far up in the isolated glens of Valais Canton, had deplored World War II because it suspended Valais' own brand of warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only difficulty was that Mulrain himself had deplored New York's "perennially filthy condition" while urging greater civic pride last February.

From Time Magazine Archive

Agathemer said he had had only two interviews with Tanno, at which they had deplored my death, I having been believed to have perished with Nonius Libo.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas