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Recent Examples of annunciation One is his first memory of lying in a cradle and a falcon flying in and striking his mouth with its tail, like an annunciation. San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023 Open seams in the ceiling allow sunlight to enter in ghostly lines—some defining an alternative volume within the space, others fanning out like an annunciation. Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020 These will cover the birth and annunciation of Jesus and the journey and adoration of the Magi. Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 4 Dec. 2019
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Noun
  • The Honor is one granted to all sitting or former presidents under a 1954 proclamation signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • President Joe Biden issued a proclamation directing the lowering of flags at all public buildings, military posts and naval vessels.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • More than 7,500 personnel are battling the blazes; President Biden has made a federal disaster declaration to help fund recovery efforts.
    Ayana Archie, NPR, 9 Jan. 2025
  • California How to help those affected by fires raging across Los Angeles County Jan. 9, 2025 PRICE GOUGING Earlier this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County, a declaration that establishes protections against price gouging.
    Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There have been no cutting pronouncements on social media by people with millions of followers.
    Mark Harris, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In principle, the public pronouncements contained in his autobiography will serve that end.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Realize that your utterances are being converted into text and that the transcribed text will be stored and made available to the AI maker.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The modern ideological stakes of translation—as a fraught operation transposing the utterances of a person enmeshed in a unique cultural fabric—begin here.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • William is studying Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and writing a thesis on the theory of signification.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • What once had been a multitude of beings with varying cultural and spiritual significations—not to mention consciousnesses of their own—became commodities that held value only when inserted into a by-now self-propelling and endlessly expanding market.
    Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
Noun
  • Events in the Montana House closely mirror those that have recently unfolded in the U.S. House, where Speaker Mike Johnson has implemented a trans bathroom ban by fiat and legislators voted to advance a federal ban on trans women in women’s sports on Tuesday.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Compared to most fiat currencies, this alone makes bitcoin stand out.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At this point, work flexibility implementation becomes part of your team culture, rather than an edict or policy declaration.
    Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • In July, a United Nations report said the ministry was contributing to a climate of fear and intimidation among Afghans through edicts and the methods used to enforce them.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Notably, most members of Yoon’s conservative party refused to vote against him, but the opposition was able to persuade enough of them to secure the two-thirds vote needed to block the martial law decree at least.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The president-elect is very likely to both create and destroy fortunes by executive decree.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025

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