avowals

plural of avowal

Example Sentences

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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
  • The boldest declarations of solidarity, Lee knows, often precede the quietest and cruellest of betrayals.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The invasive species, first discovered in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in October 2024, has prompted emergency declarations in Sacramento, Yolo, San Joaquin and Kern counties.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Students and workers are angry Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system.
    — Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Student groups want 250,000 more places in higher education and an end to selection through Parcoursup, the national admissions system.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The battle — which escalated into a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by the Justice Department against the state, Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Logan — features striking assertions of official misconduct.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Speaking to Fox News Digital, Kravetz dismissed assertions that her group relies on DSA tactics, emphasizing that CVPE supporters span the political spectrum.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Killer identified The search for answers stretched across decades, combined with false confessions, arrests, convictions and appeals before DNA and ballistics evidence identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers in September 2025.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • In the 1990s, researchers were finally able to read the confessions beaten out of Stalin’s victims and to see the bloodstains on the paper.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But what an imaginative launching pad to interrogate the nature of greatness, the unsatisfactory acknowledgements of one’s own mediocrity, the seemingly unjust parceling out of genius from God.
    — Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Among other acknowledgments of his work, he was included in Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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“Avowals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avowals. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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