"with apologies to" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Howard Noel, I'm the Other Man in My Own Marriage!, page 122:",
          "text": "With apologies to Jonathan Swift, May I make a “modest proposal?”",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Anthony Hogan, Rebecca Phillips, Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability (page 5)",
          "text": "Losing one's hearing suggests carelessness at best (with apologies to Oscar Wilde) and damnation at worst (in the biblical sense)."
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        },
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  "word": "with apologies to"
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