China initially struck a contrite tone about the balloon, saying that it was a weather craft that had drifted off course.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/world/europe/blinken-wang-china-balloon.html

Even once we’ve humbled ourselves, with contrite heart, and called Him Lord, we are still after all new at being born again, being born spiritually.

Source: https://www.mtairynews.com/opinion/116555/the-gifts-of-god

In contrite comments to The Washington Free Beacon in response to additional revelations from his private messages, Gonzalez said, “What starts off as joking can very quickly become unironically internalized as an actual belief.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/opinion/masculinity-right-young-men.html

May we learn to have more humble and contrite hearts to God and to one another.

Source: https://opinion.inquirer.net/167832/humility-pa-more

“You know,” says Brode, more contrite than I was expecting, “I’ve never worked on a game that did not completely redo the rank system multiple times during live development.

Source: https://kotaku.com/marvel-snap-ben-brode-galactus-shop-deck-interview-ccg-1849978973