How to Use promulgate in a Sentence

promulgate

verb
  • Her ideas have been widely promulgated on the Internet.
  • The law was promulgated in April 1988.
  • But that by itself was not enough to promulgate the result through the field.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Northam hoped to use the law to promulgate rules that would protect trans students.
    Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • If lessons from those countries that have turned the tide were promulgated a lot of good could be done.
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • If that means death for a baby, so be it: At least the state’s view of the value of life has been promulgated.
    Ben Shapiro, National Review, 26 July 2017
  • Among other things, Castellanos was said to have used the kites to promulgate rules—reglas—as to how the gang should behave.
    Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The study’s founders and leaders helped promulgate the American Plan.
    Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
  • It could be promulgated in Hong Kong as early as late June.
    The Economist, 28 May 2020
  • The statute authorizes the BLM to create crimes, punishable by up to a year in prison or a fine of up to $1,000, by promulgating these rules.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • This process isn’t what the progressives who promulgate more inclusive forms of speech had in mind.
    Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • His last act was to promulgate a memo that sharply limited how DOJ could use consent decrees in the future.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The religious group had also come under fire for the way in which members promulgated their faith.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 14 June 2018
  • Our progress, as promulgated by its boosters, has been toward a more perfect union.
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
  • These rules are promulgated in the name of consumer protection.
    The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The Haredim, in his view, promulgate a narrow version of Judaism that divides the country rather than unites it, and threatens the secular vision of the state’s founders.
    New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The order also gives the Department of Health and Human Services 120 days to promulgate rules allowing hearing aids to be sold over the counter.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • In Canada, that kind of denial has been easier to promulgate with its position next to the U.S., where racial divides often rage to the surface.
    Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 June 2020
  • Ailes, a key member of the media team that helped put Richard Nixon in the White House in 1968, saw it as an outlet that could be used to promulgate and amplify a conservative viewpoint.
    David Zurawik, CNN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • To promulgate a mission worldwide, one needs followers, people – in the Book of Genesis, children – who will keep alive the covenantal dream.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Most important of all, the White House has so far failed to promulgate a consistent ideology.
    Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
  • White supremacy is being tolerated, even promulgated, by those in the seats of power in this country and abroad.
    Hara Person, Time, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The bill would require the finance department to promulgate rules to implement the disbursement of the grants to the pregnancy resource centers.
    Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The league has promulgated rules that substantially limit how and when teams compete.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • There were several laws promulgated and amended that gave the internment a legal fig-leaf.
    Naresh Fernandes, Quartz India, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Frost did not rule out the possibility that the DNR could promulgate a permanent rule and hold a season, perhaps even before Feb. 28, the last allowable date by statute.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2021
  • There are still federal regulations to work out and local rules to promulgate.
    Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • The world religions promulgated laws that were guides for living and a pathway to the afterlife, entangling church and state and setting the stage for struggles in medieval Europe to build secular systems of law.
    Fernanda Pirie, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
  • As a substantive matter, the votes allow Congress to overturn federal rules promulgated by departments and agencies.
    Stephen Neukam, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024

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