declares

present tense third-person singular of declare
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Recent Examples of declares Its enduring contribution to the state, the university itself often declares, is rooted in the quality of the education students receive. — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026 The settlement contains a provision denying wrongdoing except as expressly established in the judgment, which declares the district’s wristband ban unconstitutional. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026 English as official language Idaho already has a state law that declares English our official language. — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 28 Oct. 2026 The best time to buy depends on the product, the urgency and the shopper’s budget — not on when a retailer declares its biggest event. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026 Legibility is better than permissiveness, because a business that declares its rules can enforce them, while a business that blocks indiscriminately can only hope. — Dvir Ginzburg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026 This fertile period of creative and intellectual life wasn’t even a renaissance, one partygoer declares. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2026 The treaty also declares that space is a global commons that can be used only for peaceful purposes. — Stephanie Liechtenstein, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 The treaty also declares that space is a global commons that can be used for only peaceful purposes. — ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for declares
Verb
  • Aided by gun dealer Garry (Michael Ironside) and a sheriff, Heidi (Olivia Thirlby), who ran afoul of corrupt local leadership, Fitz announces plans to exact vengeance against bloodthirsty Mirko and drive Brownstone out of Valentine permanently.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 12 Nov. 2026
  • When someone announces a million new materials, ask how many were actually made and how many were stable under realistic conditions.
    — Ahmed Ismail, Forbes.com, 12 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Brown, of Relativity, insists that adopting AI is a necessary move to maintain healthy peer-to-peer and global competition.
    — S. Sorrina Beecher, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
  • To our confoundment, the script insists that Gary, now retired, was the rare honest NYPD officer — and, weirder still, acts like that was obvious.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The administration asserts wartime authority for the strikes, a legal premise human-rights organizations dispute.
    — Saul Hudson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Advertisement In District Nine, meanwhile, Niven asserts that incumbent Democrats were well liked and Republicans failed to produce a competitive candidate.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 8 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • In any case, the characters’ specific backgrounds matter less when the play reveals itself to be a metaphor for military conflict, especially the fallout and collateral damage affecting those who are not the strategists and decision makers.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Another reveals a family trait or behavior that was unwittingly passed from generation to generation.
    — Gary Barron, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Now the company proclaims that DeleteMe has performed over 100 million successful opt-out removals.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Assane proclaims his innocence, but everything points to his guilt.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The indictment alleges that McDonnell spent some of the funds paying creditors and Bellum Entertainment’s payroll.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • Linda Gilbert, who was 78 at the time of the incident, alleges that hospital staff injected the wrong drug into her spinal canal during the procedure.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 11 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Mark professes his love for her with giant cards, while her husband is in the next room.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2026
  • San Diego professes pride in high graduation rates, but this is a chimera hiding the sad truth of how far our educational leaders will go to look good.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Physicists have now recreated this situation in the laboratory, building a three-component quantum system that displays competing magnetic correlations.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Besides the night and daytime modes, there is also a navigation mode which displays your cardinal direction alongside degrees of your azimuth and elevation angles.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2026

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“Declares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/declares. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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