He apologizes for having been absent for the past couple of days, but no one seems to care very much.

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He apologizes for using an obscenity, and proceeds to talk, in a serious tone now, about providing his extended family member with new tires like mine.

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If he apologizes it means he said something wrong.

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"Please don't take it that way, " he apologizes.

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Mr. DAVIDSON: Ken Melman, though--he acknowledges that the Republican Party has had shortcomings, and even has said that he apologizes, essentially, or regrets the Southern strategy that the Republicans employed, even long after folks like Strom Thurmond went to the Republican Party.

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He also apologizes, which he also did to the staff of Livestrong, the cancer support organization he started over a decade ago.

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He said he "sincerely" apologizes to every New Yorker.

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Too often when an individual with a high profile gets into difficulty he (and it is often male) apologizes without offering to make amends.

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He taught himself to speak again with the help of Rosetta Stone English and his six-year-old granddaughter, but he still gets words mixed up once in a while, and apologizes often for speaking slowly.

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