as in to proclaim
to make known openly or publicly
the excited coworker announced to everyone within hearing distance that she and her husband were expecting
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Sony Pictures Classics recently announced additional international release dates across Latin America and Europe for the movie.
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Torres-Springer, Joshi and Williams-Isom, who have served in city government for decades, announced their resignations in a joint Monday afternoon message sent to agency commissioners and other top officials.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
The three-and-a-half-hour special closed with McCartney performing a Beatles medley that imparted such a sense of finality, I wouldn’t have been shocked if Michaels had come out onstage afterwards and announced that SNL was ending right then and there.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
On Monday, another longtime big leaguer, a World Series winner who once won the AL RBI crown and is one of only 18 players in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game announced plans to move into another professional sport: pickleball.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Feb. 2025
Torres-Springer, Joshi and Williams-Isom, who have served in city government for decades, announced their resignations in a joint Monday afternoon message sent to agency commissioners and other top officials.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
The three-and-a-half-hour special closed with McCartney performing a Beatles medley that imparted such a sense of finality, I wouldn’t have been shocked if Michaels had come out onstage afterwards and announced that SNL was ending right then and there.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
On Monday, another longtime big leaguer, a World Series winner who once won the AL RBI crown and is one of only 18 players in MLB history to hit four home runs in one game announced plans to move into another professional sport: pickleball.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for announce
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Since the end of the cold war, the U.S. has proclaimed its missile defenses were not meant to block an incoming attack from China or Russia, just loose North Korean ones.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
19 Feb. 2025
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Both actively and publicly proclaimed their imperialist or ethnocentric views.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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In 2024, the ADL published a report detailing an increase in jihadist terrorist incidents nationwide, including several plots to cause mass casualties.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published.—
CNN,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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German Christian Democrat Norbert Röttgen, a longtime advocate for transatlantic alliances, said the Trump administration had in effect declared an ideological war on Europe.—
Eleanor Beardsley,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2025
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There also was little pushback from the church in Rome: not until the late 1880's, Murphy said, would the Pope definitively declare slavery to be morally wrong.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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Research suggests that about 50% of products advertised to Black women contain these types of chemicals, compared with about 7% that are advertised to White women, according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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According to Variety, the website had been advertising its typical selection of merchandise and athleisure wear on Sunday, but all of those items were removed and replaced with the swastika shirt shortly after the ad aired.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Birkin bag maker Hermes posted blowout fourth-quarter sales earlier this month, extending its outperformance at the close of a broadly upbeat earnings season, during which even embattled fashion houses LVMH and Gucci-owner Kering beat quarterly forecasts.—
Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2025
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The 30-year-old officer’s death was ruled a homicide, the York County Coroner’s Office said in a news release posted to social media on Monday.—
John Miller,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Announce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/announce. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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