avowals

plural of avowal

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Recent Examples of avowals As with most impassioned avowals made on hotel steps, Congress ignored it. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avowals
Noun
  • After a week of deliberations and declarations of the Massachusetts jury in Lindsay Clancy‘s triple-murder case being deadlocked, the judge has declared a mistrial today.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026
  • These routing announcements are declarations made as entries on a global routing table used by all ASes and the hosting providers serving them.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The recent grad floated slightly looser admissions standards for football as a possible solution.
    Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Loughlin’s return to Instagram came seven years after she and her estranged husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were embroiled in a high-profile college admissions scandal in March 2019 involving their two daughters.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • China is also pushing back against the Pentagon’s assertions.
    Justin Klawans, TheWeek, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Across the globe, anti-gender campaigning is frequently tied to right-wing nationalism, white supremacy, and assertions of patriarchal power.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The defense said all confessions Davis has made in the past are false confessions and claimed his versions of events do not match what was found at the scene and during the investigation.
    Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The case has leaned largely on Davis' own multiple alleged confessions.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Curt is thanked in the acknowledgements of the book for being a test reader.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The statement wouldn’t be so condescendingly winking if the theorist’s contributions to their field weren’t drawn, word for word, from the academic work of the late Lauren Berlant, the first person thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.
    Maya Binyam, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Avowals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avowals. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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