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
  • Four student members submitted declarations but are not individual plaintiffs.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The burial ground was eventually forgotten until at least 2006, when the City of New York placed restrictive declarations on the site to protect those buried there.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Those admissions would not, by themselves, invalidate the verdict.
    Monu Bedi, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • For months, a sizable group of University of California professors have been demanding the reinstatement of standardized test requirements in the undergraduate admissions policy.
    Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That result shocked many Germans who had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past through education and laws to prohibit persecution.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • That result shocked many Germans who had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past through education and laws to outlaw persecution.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Federal prosecutors collected the text messages, emails, bank withdrawals and deposits, and confessions of Diamantis accomplices in his bribery and extortion scheme.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Toward the end of the film, many walls of secrets come crashing down — some inexplicably so, through unprompted confessions.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 16 Sep. 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 23 Sep. 2026.

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