avowedly

Example Sentences

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His far-reaching, avowedly disruptive proposals seem destined to have a major impact not just in the short term, but possibly well beyond.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

For decades, voters here rewarded sensible, pro-business, avowedly conservative politicians.

From Salon • May 22, 2024

Tournant said dismissing the indictment was justified because prosecutors' "intrusion" into his attorney-client relationship had been "manifestly and avowedly corrupt."

From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2023

A former investment banker, he had been elected in 2017 on an avowedly pro-business platform that promised to cut regulation and reduce government spending.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

But the book you are holding is avowedly prescriptivist: it consists of several hundred pages in which I am bossing you around.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker