How to Use avow in a Sentence
avow
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Merkel herself avows that the events of 2015 cannot be repeated.
—Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
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The French avow their standardization of the carte à jouer and its ancestor, the tarot.
—Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
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As of this publication though, Snoop remains a proud and avowed God-dog.
—Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 24 Aug. 2023
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The founders of Boerum Hill all avowed a desire to live in an integrated neighborhood.
—Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
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The problem is when his mandates haven’t matched his statements—or his avowed ohana principles.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
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Those of us who have tied ourselves to President Trump and who have avowed to support his policies are winning.
—Fox News, 19 June 2018
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Many also avow that even with the North Waziristan sweep, militants were given an early heads-up to move over into Afghanistan.
—Hollie McKay, Fox News, 10 July 2018
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The video premiered during a ceremony hosted by pop star and avowed Swift nemesis Katy Perry.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 28 Aug. 2017
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In a sense, the ruling party now actually avows that perspective.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
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In the courtroom drama that occupies the later part of the movie, Ernest is offered a chance to avow his misdeeds and to help bring down the system of organized crime that gave rise to them—to bear witness in the official sense.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
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And don't worry about tooth damage, as Crest avows these contain the same enamel-safe whitening ingredient that dentists use.
—Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2020
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The centerpiece will be an exhibit with 500 items on display, including many items that Santulli avowed to be one-of-a-kind and shown on a strictly look-but-please-don’t-play basis.
—Suneel Ratan, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2003
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Adherents to the politics of adulation have been in close combat with those who avow the politics of condemnation.
—Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
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But being better off than most people is no barrier to feeling virtuous, so long as the Elect publicly avow their commitment to the quest for social justice.
—Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
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The lax oversight has likely allowed avowed extremists and gang members to enlist in the military without scrutiny.
—Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
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By the incoherent finale, avowed super-skeptic Jen unconvincingly stans over the X-Men.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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Leaders have avowed the need to be inclusive and have tweaked recruiting machinery to nearly achieve gender parity among starting classes.
—Fortune, 19 Sep. 2019
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After the event, Chris Berry — a retired telephone company technician — says without prompting that the topic that stood out most for him was Steyer’s avowed support for slavery reparations.
—Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
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With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are already remaking the global video game industry.
—Lewis Gordon, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
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The coffee giant had been quick to avow its commitment to Black Lives Matter as protests erupted over Floyd’s death, and committed $1 million to racial equity organizations.
—Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2020
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Lemoi’s folksy Rhode Island accent, his avowed regular-guy-ness, and his refusal to take any money in exchange for his advice made him into an alt-wellness influencer and a personal hero for those who followed him.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023
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The group openly avows the idealism that drew them to Obama’s first presidential campaign, along with a commitment to rational discourse in the face of partisan incivility.
—Ben Austen, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
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The destructive consequences of undermining the foundations of capitalism simply do not concern them, many of them being in any case avowed communists.
—Wanjiru Njoya, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024
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Prosecutors, who have been criticized in recent weeks for their long inaction despite Matzneff’s avowed pedophilia, are moving on a separate track that could lead to more criminal charges.
—Norimitsu Onishi, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2020
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But Scotland and Northern Ireland do not need to avow republicanism to vote for democratic self-determination.
—Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
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Prosecutors, who have been criticized in recent weeks for their long inaction despite Mr. Matzneff’s avowed pedophilia, are moving on a separate track that could lead to more criminal charges.
—Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
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Even those of us with zero avowed interest in fashion are prone to feel anxiety, vulnerability and dissatisfaction around our pants.
—Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
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By contrast, California’s public universities ignore the test scores and avow the importance of diversity.
—Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
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This third Palestinian political movement might respond to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s granting senior ministries to avowed racists – one of whom has multiple convictions for terrorism — by holding silent vigils in front of those ministries.
—David Super, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2024
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While avowing eternal solidarity with Holocaust survivors and the Jewish people, Abbas mentioned neither Israel’s role in expelling his people nor its failure to guarantee that such a mass expulsion event can never recur.
—Omri Boehm, The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2020
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