avowed

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Vance built his political brand as an avowed anti-interventionist who wanted to keep America out of any more foreign wars, like in Iraq where he served as a US Marine.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Doing so, the president avowed, would be unsportsmanlike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

ExxonMobil contends that the legislative history shows that the bills seek to “place disproportionate blame on companies like ExxonMobil for being large and for the avowed purpose of spurring public opprobrium,” according to the lawsuit.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025

My father is an avowed Luddite and still sends me newspaper clippings attached to handwritten notes through the mail.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2025

He pointed with a laugh to his avowed library—to the shelves of books, the rack full of reading-machine bobbins and sound-track rolls.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley