self-avowed
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- self-avowedly adverb
Example Sentences
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It came a day after the General Conference removed its longstanding ban on “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers.
From Seattle Times
The overturning of the 40-year-old ban on “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” passed overwhelmingly and without debate in a package of measures that had already received strong support in committee.
From New York Times
Such contradictory, conflicted uprootings and re-rootings have given Jews their atypical mobility, marginality and occasional magnificence and malfeasance, breeding some tough, defiant spirits, not only in Moses and Jesus but also in Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the atomic bomb and self-avowed “destroyer of worlds.”
From Salon
A self-avowed superfan of the first show who proudly states he’s probably seen its 264 episodes at least a thousand times, the writer once ran a Twitter account that pitched storylines for the then-long canceled show.
From Los Angeles Times
She mentioned leading the state “beyond hate and violence,” a reference to the shooting of an unarmed Black motorist by a white police officer and the slayings of nine Black parishioners by a self-avowed white supremacist.
From Seattle Times
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