annunciation

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Recent Examples of annunciation Last season’s Big Ten championship was an annunciation for UCLA, the program’s entrance into the nation’s elite with its first conference title in nearly two decades. Grace Raynor, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
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Noun
  • But nearly five decades after the 1979 revolution, and for all the official proclamations of national unity in the run-up to Khamenei's funeral, the Islamic Republic has rarely been so internally fractured.
    Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The country’s final authority on election matters, the National Jury of Elections (JNE), has yet to issue its official proclamation, according to Reuters.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • In its declaration of Fujimori’s victory Friday, Peru’s National Jury of Elections said a review had found no such inconsistencies in the vote and rejected an appeal filed by Together for Peru.
    Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • Readiness is an ongoing practice, not a declaration, determined by daily interactions and the safety to be candid.
    Tracy Lawrence, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Even temporary sales slumps breed alarmist pronouncements; book parties in disfavored genres begin to feel like wakes, sending off one more spirit to the inevitable afterworld of the remainder shelf.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • Beulah’s not delivering world-weary pronouncements, the way Beth does.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • One of the most enduring presidential utterances of the 20th century was also a bald-faced lie.
    Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 June 2026
  • He was widely celebrated as a virtuoso who nurtured America’s economic well-being and whose nearly every utterance was parsed for clues as to where interest rates, the economy and the financial markets might be headed.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • According to Baudrillard, consumption is institutionalized as a signification as well as a social differentiation process.
    Ayse Binay Kurultay, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 May 2026
  • Both artists draw from their Renaissance references to take up the significations of light, mass, and scale.
    Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • While stablecoins promise faster, cheaper cross-border payments, the real challenge lies in navigating complex licensing requirements and integrating with traditional fiat systems.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Baldwin’s position was that the centrality of slavery and racial subjugation in American history could not simply be reversed by legislative fiat.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Getty Images for Ascot Racecourse The highly agile Getty shooter Alan Crowhurst has done us a great favor by bringing concrete cloakroom evidence of the many social and administrative challenges that the (famous) Royal Ascot costume edicts require in order to be properly met.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • The memorandum includes a pledge by Iran to never purchase or construct nuclear weapons — a vow the Islamic Republic has made multiple times before, including by signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in a religious edict issued by the late supreme leader and in the Obama-era nuclear accord.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Rodriguez said during the press conference that her government issued an emergency decree to activate civil protection and emergency protocols within hours of the tremors.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • Vatican decree targeted bishops and faithful In a decree, the Vatican excommunicated the four new bishops and the two existing SSPX bishops who participated in the ceremony.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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