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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
apologise .
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Examples
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Gordon thanks his team profusely for their help and again apologises for letting them down.
Gordon Brown to aides on eve of election defeat: I really am sorry Nicholas Watt 2010
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French-translation wash-care label apologises for Bush
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I find it exceptionally odd that Howard now 'apologises' for his role in the Iraq slaughter, but has always refused to apologise to the Aboriginal Australians for their centuries-long slaughter by his forebears; the word 'hypocrite' fits comfortably here.
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Portland paper 'apologises' for Ramadan coverage on 9/11 anniversary, brandrepublic. com, 13 September 2010, 03: 19PM
Portland paper 'apologises' for Ramadan coverage on 9/11 anniversary - Brand Republic News 2010
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Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall "apologises" to the 1,000 women he claims to have slept with in a three-year period in the Eighties
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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So Williamson "apologises" for "causing the Holy Father so much uneccessary distress"?
CathNews 2009
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Gordon Brown 'apologises' after Mandrake's disclosures about his conduct at Armistice Day service
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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1703, PH: Brown "apologises" for Parliament's inability to deal with expenses sooner.
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1703, PH: Brown "apologises" for Parliament's inability to deal with expenses sooner.
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"apologises" to Britain "for what my black race is doing to white people".
Harry's Place 2008
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