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The director for decades, J. Edgar Hoover, had promulgated enormous abuses of the bureau.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

The complaint notes that in response to skyrocketing COVID-19 infections inside correctional facilities, King County Executive Dow Constantine had promulgated a jail policy that prohibited booking nonviolent offenders.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023

Just five months before this snowy athletic jamboree, the Reichstag had promulgated the anti-Jewish Nuremberg race laws.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2021

In 2019, the Punjab provincial government had promulgated a law to ban employment of children below 15 years of age as domestic servants.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2020

McClernand had promulgated an order praising his own corps to the skies and conveying the idea that he and it had won the battles.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry