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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of proclaim.

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  • adjective declared publicly; made widely known

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Examples

  • No matter what her title proclaimed, Asbell-Maulsby always saw herself as one thing: a woman who did what was required to take care of her family.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2009

  • No matter what her title proclaimed, Asbell-Maulsby always saw herself as one thing: a woman who did what was required to take care of her family.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2009

  • His expression proclaimed that the gesture was a question, but it took two repetitions before Edoran got it.

    Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009

  • His expression proclaimed that the gesture was a question, but it took two repetitions before Edoran got it.

    Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009

  • Charlie the Choo-Choo, the title proclaimed, Story and Pictures by Beryl Evans.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • Theos, almost suffocated with anxiety, could hardly maintain even the appearance of calmness, -- the title proclaimed, with its second appendage, was precisely the same as that of his own work -- but this did not now affect him so much.

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • As the authors of the Constitution knew, copyright was created in Great Britain by the Statute of Anne in 1710 for the purpose of curbing the monopolistic practices of the London Stationers 'Company and also, as its title proclaimed, "for the encouragement of learning."

    Google & the Future of Books Darnton, Robert 2009

  • The headline above the title proclaimed, “Mark Twain—More of Him.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The headline above the title proclaimed, “Mark Twain—More of Him.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • He stripped out of his clothes, kneeled on the floor beside the reshaped rug, and spread the entire 16-oz bottle of superglue “SUPER DUPER-SIZED SUPERGLUE” the label proclaimed on the rug’s underside.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

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