Example Sentences

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“The Sheep Detectives” director, Kyle Balda, a veteran who directed some of the avowedly silly “Minions” movies, said that many studios now operated with a directive to be entertaining above all.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

His far-reaching, avowedly disruptive proposals seem destined to have a major impact not just in the short term, but possibly well beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

For decades, voters here rewarded sensible, pro-business, avowedly conservative politicians.

From Salon • May 22, 2024

She described Wainaina as a “mediator, medium, artist and rocks-crusher” who “blasted open the avowedly abstruse doors to literary possibilities in the world for Kenyans and artists of African origin.”

From New York Times • May 29, 2023

But the book you are holding is avowedly prescriptivist: it consists of several hundred pages in which I am bossing you around.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker