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Recent Examples of protestation Lamia doesn’t know that Bibi has gone into super-grandma mode after realizing the folly of her abandonment plan, parking herself in loud protestation at the police station. Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 16 May 2025 Their protestations notwithstanding, that’s exactly the way Belichick and Hudson seem to want it. Steve Buckley, New York Times, 12 May 2025 However, Leavitt’s protestations did not stop questions concerning ethics, particularly ahead of Trump’s trip to the Middle East next week. Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 9 May 2025 Russia’s war has already limited Germany’s voice in Europe on defense issues – Berlin spent decades forging closer economic ties with Moscow, despite Poland’s protestations – and Merz will struggle to regain it. Rob Picheta, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for protestation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for protestation
Noun
  • Yet many Arabs, and not a few of the British military authorities tasked with its implementation, opposed the declaration.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement ‘This is war’ Several on the right have likened Kirk’s death to a declaration of war.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This assertion, according to a subsequent whistle-blower complaint, was false.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The assertion there is no client list among Epstein’s documents aligns with earlier statements from the Justice Department, which said Epstein had no such list.
    Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This insistence on being faithful to Gotouge’s vision — while admirable — also means that the titular Demon Slayer is barely in the first hour or so, and his sister, Nezuko isn’t in the film at all, aside from one quick aside.
    David Opie, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jobs’s insistence on elegance was emotional, not merely aesthetic.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Protestation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protestation. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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