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Together with biophysicist Francis Crick, he had been proclaiming in Scientific American and elsewhere that consciousness, which philosophers have wrestled with for millennia, was scientifically tractable.

From Scientific American • Jun. 26, 2023

For some time, Jackson had been proclaiming that he had contemptuously spurned Clay when the latter had sought to reach the same devious bargain with him that he had ultimately made with Adams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2016

For years pundits had been proclaiming the demise of the Big Three, and they will no doubt do so again.

From Time Magazine Archive

This, of course, brought intense satisfaction to the members of Local Leesville of the Socialist party; it was what they had been proclaiming for two years and four months!

From Jimmie Higgins by Sinclair, Upton

Meanwhile, the upper South had been proclaiming its idealism.

From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)