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Blanchett had descended to the interior archway and was deploring the gentrification of Brooklyn when a line of identically blue and gray flight-suited figures above began clamoring for attention.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2015

At his Chartwell country estate years ago, Winston Churchill was deploring a picture that Art Patron Eddie Marsh had persuaded Mrs. Churchill to buy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an interview some months ago, pretty Peggy Fleming, queen of the figure skaters, was deploring the low caliber of today's folk heroes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Melancholy was the aspect of the abbey, and it required no stretch of imagination to fancy that the old structure was deploring the fate of its former ruler.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

"But you may catch us up in England, Barry," said his father, when Barry was deploring their ill luck.

From The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Connor, Ralph