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Achieving the first goal necessitates restraint and care, both from the SEC when it promulgates a rule and from Congress when it directs the commission to mandate disclosure on a subject.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Race, a keen source of conflict in the stories a society promulgates about itself, raises these stakes astronomically.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2021

That will come when the E.P.A. officially promulgates a proposed new rule, possibly later this year.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2021

James taught that the value of a practice or policy doesn’t depend on the authority or movement that promulgates it, nor on the philosophical framework from which it derives.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2020

In it he promulgates the admirable doctrine that fine literature must be, in effect, an allegory and not the careful history of particular persons.

From Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin by Starrett, Vincent