How to Use avowedly in a Sentence
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From being avowedly against the death penalty, Aftab now wants to see his wife’s rapist hang.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 11 Oct. 2021
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To the surprise of many, the truth is that the pair are avowedly not romantically involved.
—Raisa Bruner, Time, 12 Feb. 2018
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Many of her novels were avowedly acts of vengeance on old boyfriends or employers.
—Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 28 July 2020
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Trump avowedly rejects the science of climate change, which in part led him to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
—Philip Bump, Washington Post, 14 June 2017
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, who heads an avowedly racist anti-Arab party.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2021
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At any rate, Kurt avowedly cherished the ability to imagine what other people are feeling, right down to the last moments of his life.
—Michael Azerrad, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
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But we—both the avowedly liberal media and the mainstream media—don’t lie as a strategy.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
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To be fair, The Tempest as presented by Public Works is avowedly an adaptation.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2023
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Musk seems not to have learned Gates’ lessons, and remains avowedly more focused on cultivating a cutthroat culture.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2023
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It can also be practised by politicians whose parties are not avowedly populist.
—The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
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Lest the Latin branding send the wrong signal, today’s Humanitas is avowedly secular and has no connection to the Catholic Church.
—Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
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Sign up Then there’s an avowedly right-wing propaganda network.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
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This avowedly apolitical approach to religion has enabled a great deal of evil.
—Rabbi Dan Fink, idahostatesman, 21 Apr. 2018
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There’s a glaring cautionary answer to be found across the pond, in Britain, where the media is avowedly more partisan, especially in the tabloid newspapers that continue to hold great sway.
—Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 3 July 2016
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There is no basis for Corellium to be selling a product that allows the creation of avowedly perfect replicas of Apple's devices to anyone willing to pay.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2019
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Imagine that, in previous struggles, only the wrong side—the demonstrably wrong side, as revealed by history—had been loudly and avowedly Christian.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
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Yet some Republicans—those of the anti-Trump old guard, and those still hoping to win over the suburban voters who have soured on Trump—are taking avowedly exceptionalist stances.
—Parker Richards, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2022
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No, the problem is not those who use an avowedly instant communication service as intended.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2012
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Israel’s avowedly right-wing government was busy expanding settlements in the West Bank, prompting anger from Palestinians.
—Maria Fantappie and Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
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But there is, at the same time, an undercurrent of growing discomfort among avowedly conservative Muslims.
—Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
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Movie theaters and dine-in restaurants followed days later, reflecting the governor’s avowedly pro-business agenda.
—Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 22 May 2020
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The statist project was avowedly secular—the endgame was the construction of a new Hebrew culture to supplant Judaism as a religion—and observant communities generally wanted no part of it.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
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Many students come from radical left-wing families with avowedly anti-Catholic views who forced the school to compromise on the ideal of a nonpolitical education.
—Bruce Gilley, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022
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The Arakan Army, which has promised to rehabilitate the Rohingya community, many of whose members have fled the country, has not recruited a single Rohingya despite being avowedly secular.
—Avinash Paliwal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Jan. 2024
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Until the late 1960s, conservative Democrats, many of them avowedly racist, held a tight grip on state politics, even as Virginia voters were leaning toward the Republicans in presidential elections.
—New York Times, 1 Nov. 2021
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Coming from a White House avowedly in favor of eliminating a host of government regulations, Scalia's nomination is no great surprise.
—Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 19 July 2019
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But despite avowedly wanting to end the program, Biden has actually imposed stricter immigration measures on nationals from certain countries who hope to enter the United States.
—Alice Driver, CNN, 9 Jan. 2023
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Argentina’s brash new far-right, avowedly libertarian president, Javier Milei, began his first term in office this week with a warning: prepare for an economic shock treatment.
—Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
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Although avowedly a non-nuclear power, Japan is also threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons.
—Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
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The most pivotal election will take place in November, when the world’s most powerful democracy decides whether to turn itself over to an avowedly authoritarian demagogue.
—Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2024
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