pronouncement
Americannoun
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an official or authoritative statement or announcement
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the act of pronouncing, declaring, or uttering formally
Other Word Forms
- prepronouncement noun
Etymology
Origin of pronouncement
Example Sentences
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At the time, his pronouncement was met with blank faces and stifled laughter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
He followed this with a pronouncement that he was ordering flags to be lowered to half-staff.
From Slate • Sep. 10, 2025
It was a game of wait and see until a pronouncement on social media Sunday night that the colt was coming to Pimlico.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
The pronouncement raised eyebrows as it came from the manager of a club without a trophy since the League Cup win under the long-forgotten Juande Ramos in 2008.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2024
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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