pronunciamento
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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016
NBC's pronunciamento beat ABC to the verdict by seconds, CBS by 15 minutes.*
From Time Magazine Archive
El Morocco banned Bogart "for life" in a pronunciamento delivered in tones as sepulchral as if he were being sentenced to the electric chair.
From Time Magazine Archive
West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating the XX Olympiad of the modern era."
From Time Magazine Archive
He delivered the commonplace pronunciamento in a tone which would have conveyed much to a mountain man.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline
