apologies

noun

plural of apology
as in excuses
an explanation that frees one from fault or blame her standard apology for her chronic tardiness is the ever-present congestion on the highways

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Recent Examples of apologies What Premier League clubs have shifted away from is — and apologies for the bluntness here — tolerating goalkeepers who aren’t good enough at saving shots. — Michael Cox, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Warm weather can mean sweaty feet (apologies for the visual), but breathable sneakers aren’t just useful for beating the heat. — Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 The week brought a lockdown, board member apologies, new accountability grades and a fresh instructional model aimed at turning around low-performing campuses. — Star-Telegram Staff. Produced With Ai Assistance, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Aug. 2026 With apologies to Shelley, maybe designers are the unacknowledged poets of the world. — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026 With apologies to Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland is our greatest teenage Spider-Man. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 31 July 2026 For more than a decade, Charli XCX was a secret weapon, a brazen experimentalist, a raw diarist, and (apologies to Chappell Roan) your favorite artist’s favorite artist. — Caryn Ganz, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026 Being asked to name my favorite book of all time feels like way too much pressure (apologies to the asker, this newsletter’s editor). — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 July 2026 Her rebuke comes as Caribbean leaders meet under the Caricom bloc and launch a new slavery reparations manifesto, pressing Britain for apologies, debt cancellation and other measures long resisted in London. — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apologies
  1. excuses
  2. justifications
  3. reasons
Noun
  • The software company PDFFly surveyed 2000 managers and senior managers and found that while 85% of managers suspect their employees are making fake excuses to grab extra time off in the summer, half of management are doing exactly that themselves.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Save as a collection on MyRecipes Fall brings football tailgates, family dinners, and dozens more excuses to gather.
    — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of excuses
Noun
  • Idaho allows exemptions for medical, religious or other reasons, and medical justifications account for very few of those exemptions, according to data from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 21 Aug. 2026
  • At the center lies carceral safety politics—logics that turn fears of violence into justifications for punitive responses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of justifications
Noun
  • This increase happens for two reasons — both tied to the fact that El Niño is characterized by warmer than average ocean temperatures in the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Less than a week after our Zoom conversation with Knapp, an unrelated Good Good collab went viral for all of the wrong reasons.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of reasons

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“Apologies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apologies. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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