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Recent Examples of avowal One element that distinguishes the Protestant tradition from the other Abrahamic religions is its emphasis on public avowal. Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023 The ritual of public avowals began in Europe with the Reformation. Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023 Did the secret of this avowal loiter in the breast of a consecrated virgin? Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023 Poland, controlled alternately by Russia and Germany for much of the 20th century, was subject to such rule for decades, an experience that has informed an avowal and a consensus that the only way to prevail is to refuse to be dominated. Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for avowal
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Noun
  • Arkansas' federal delegation has asked President Donald Trump to reconsider the federal government's decisions on major disaster declaration requests in response to severe weather in mid-March.
    Alex Thomas, Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The government agency said the move is in response to President Trump's January 20 declaration of a national energy emergency.
    Anne Marie D. Lee, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • One in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours, according to an Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis.
    Devna Bose and Benjamin Thorp, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Tickets cost $9, or $7 for children ages 2 to 17; admission is free for kids under 2.
    Kendrick Marshall, Sacbee.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yet the President himself stokes fears of a slippery slope to strongman rule with his blanket assertions of power, his disregard for democratic guardrails, and his talk of running for a third term, despite the 22nd Amendment’s prohibition.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Green’s teammate, Moses Moody, gave a sarcastic response to Brooks’ assertion.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Filled with footnotes where Reid takes her off-the-cuff voice and honest takes to the next level, Enough is a book of our times, wherein candor, confessions, and embracing the bad along with the good seem to rule more by the moment.
    Maya Silver, Outside Online, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Then another man who had been imprisoned as a possible suspect — a black World War II veteran and construction worker, Wesley Byrd, 26 — said Apodaca and state police drove him into the desert and used torture to try to force a confession from him.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration downplayed the first breach amid numerous officials’ insistence that nothing classified had been shared.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The economic promise of Dead Sea potash played a key role in Britain’s insistence on governing Palestine after World War I. But extracting the mineral posed a challenge.
    Made by History, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But amid the fanfare of parades, fireworks and airshows, a long-standing debate over what to call the holiday continues, a subtle acknowledgment of the lingering scars of a contentious war.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • There is now growing public acknowledgment from the tech industry that gas will be needed, at least in the near term, to help fuel AI.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Avowal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avowal. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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