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To touring U.S. bigwigs, Lord McGowan has deprecated the U.S. antitrust acts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, for example, has deprecated all talk in regard to matters of this sort, saying, in effect: What difference does it make?

From Our Unitarian Gospel by Savage, Minot J. (Minot Judson)

But Ireland still holds the floor, though Mr. Asquith is frugal of information as to the prospective Irish Bill and has deprecated discussion of the Hardinge Report, the most scarifying public document of our times.

From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)