as in declaration
a statement made publically
The government issued a proclamation granting all workers the right to parental leave.
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Recent Examples of proclamation
In addition to the proclamation, Hull said that the city is offering resources for the community on its website.
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Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
For the past two decades, tech firms have competed fiercely for talent, including with proclamations about making the world a better place.
—Joseph Menn The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
To that end, he was concerned by the Oval Office’s proclamation imposing a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
In honor of the awards’ 15th anniversary, the NYVGCC was honored with a proclamation from the New York City Council and received special recognition from Nintendo of America President and COO Devon Pritchard and Head of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
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Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
For the past two decades, tech firms have competed fiercely for talent, including with proclamations about making the world a better place.
—Joseph Menn The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
To that end, he was concerned by the Oval Office’s proclamation imposing a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
In honor of the awards’ 15th anniversary, the NYVGCC was honored with a proclamation from the New York City Council and received special recognition from Nintendo of America President and COO Devon Pritchard and Head of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer.
—Kennedy French, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for proclamation
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The governor's declaration allows the Texas New World Screwworm Response Team to use all state government prevention and response resources to prevent the spread of the parasite into Texas.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who is eager for another round of Regency-era declarations of love, unrealistically high standards of romance and string covers of pop music to feel alive again.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Yoon, who has already been in jail for months, faces eight criminal trials including his rebellion case over the martial law decree and other accusations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Jan. 2026
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Last Friday, Yoon received a five-year prison term at the Seoul court for defying attempts to detain him, fabricating the martial law proclamation and denying some Cabinet members their rights to deliberate on his martial law decree.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Jan. 2026
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Crawford also argued Berrios made multiple inconsistent statements about what happened.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
25 Jan. 2026
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NuPhy claims the entire NODE range is as much a design statement as a computer keyboard.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
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The magnitude of the admissions slowdown nationwide is hard to estimate because there’s no reliable count of the number of individual programs that quietly decided, without any central administration directive, to pull back on their numbers.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Seven security directives totaling over 500 pages have been consolidated into a single, 23-page order.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Proclamation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proclamation. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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