proclaimers

noun

plural of proclaimer
as in criers

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  1. announcers
  2. messengers
  3. harbingers
Noun
  • The announcers continued to call out Fletcher’s lack of urgency in between moves.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • The Athletic counted, downloaded and listened to all 308 goals over 104 games, as called by Telemundo’s nine announcers, and found the longest call of the men’s World Cup.
    — Emily Olsen, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of announcers
Noun
  • The ancient route was first traveled by hunter-gatherers, before being used by Indigenous traders, Inca messengers, Spanish colonists, and railway workers, among others.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026
  • The exact cause isn’t known, but Parkinson’s develops when cells that produce one of the brain’s chemical messengers — dopamine — begin to deteriorate and die.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Definition of messengers
Noun
  • The world looked to the social elite as the ultimate harbingers of style trends and sophistication, giving them a cultural cache and, in turn, a sense of power.
    — Moises Mendez II, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • If canaries in coal mines were harbingers of safe conditions, surely piping plovers at Waukegan Beach mean the city is overcoming its polluted past.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
Definition of harbingers
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