avowed
Example Sentences
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Doing so, the president avowed, would be unsportsmanlike.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
"It feels magic... the adrenaline!" said Ibrahimovic, an avowed non-skier who joked: "I didn't qualify for the downhill, I'm aiming for next year!"
From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026
ExxonMobil contends that the legislative history shows that the bills seek to “place disproportionate blame on companies like ExxonMobil for being large and for the avowed purpose of spurring public opprobrium,” according to the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
My father is an avowed Luddite and still sends me newspaper clippings attached to handwritten notes through the mail.
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025
The Lyseni would gladly have taken him south with him, he avowed, but Davos had refused.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.