clarion call
noun
: a strong request for something to happen
—usually singular
He used his speech to sound a clarion call for affordable health care.
the leader's clarion call to action
Examples of clarion call in a Sentence
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Damning national testing results earlier this year should spark a clarion call in state capitals, emboldening leaders to come clean with parents and take meaningful action that improves student learning.
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Jim Cowen, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
But the case presented by Perkins is a clarion call for abiding by the law, protecting due process, and leaving political sentiments aside.
—Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made By History, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Instead, the chief judge used the opportunity to issue a clarion call for judicial review of the massive sentences that have fueled the crisis of mass incarceration, exemplified by the almost 7,500 people serving life or long-term sentences in New York prisons.
—Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
The song was later adopted by the NAACP as a clarion call during the civil rights movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
—Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2025
The necessity to acknowledge injustice is its timeless clarion call.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
There's a clarion call across many industries today: Enterprises must transform or risk fading into oblivion.
—Thomas Lim, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
More importantly, his exceptional dedication to humanity and world peace during the four decades after his presidency are a clarion call to service.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Even at their heaviest, her songs are possessed by a weightlessness, elevated by an elegant, ethereal voice that echoes out like a clarion call.
—The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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Jim Cowen, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
But the case presented by Perkins is a clarion call for abiding by the law, protecting due process, and leaving political sentiments aside.
—Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made By History, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Instead, the chief judge used the opportunity to issue a clarion call for judicial review of the massive sentences that have fueled the crisis of mass incarceration, exemplified by the almost 7,500 people serving life or long-term sentences in New York prisons.
—Steve Zeidman, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
The song was later adopted by the NAACP as a clarion call during the civil rights movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
—Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2025
The necessity to acknowledge injustice is its timeless clarion call.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
There's a clarion call across many industries today: Enterprises must transform or risk fading into oblivion.
—Thomas Lim, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
More importantly, his exceptional dedication to humanity and world peace during the four decades after his presidency are a clarion call to service.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Even at their heaviest, her songs are possessed by a weightlessness, elevated by an elegant, ethereal voice that echoes out like a clarion call.
—The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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