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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of promulgate.

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  • adjective formally made public

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Examples

  • | Reply nah ... it's the previous administrator's fault that we can't comply. that and oh a small matter of a new direction, yet to be deterined/defined/promulgated from a new president

    Where Is NASA's Participatory Exploration Plan? - NASA Watch 2009

  • Vilayet-i-faquih is the special term promulgated by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to describe the idea that all of Iranian society is under the permanent stewardship (sometimes rendered as guardianship) of the mullahs.

    'A Call to Prayer From the Rubble of the WTC' 2010

  • The notion, once again promulgated by the Guardian in the linked article, that sad endings are artistically superior is probably why so much high-school writing (of which I've read quite a bit) features car crashes, drug overdoses and fatal illnesses.

    People prefer happy endings Edward Willett 2006

  • The notion, once again promulgated by the Guardian in the linked article, that sad endings are artistically superior is probably why so much high-school writing (of which I've read quite a bit) features car crashes, drug overdoses and fatal illnesses.

    Archive 2006-02-26 Edward Willett 2006

  • The rebels at Lordstown rejected not only the notion promulgated by New Deal liberals that they should take responsibility for their workplace, they also refused to abide by the cultural obligations of Americans.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The music that is being promulgated, that is being produced and broadcast most widely, is aggressive, very shiny, very egocentric, very repetitive, and noisy, busy, and in some ways, mindless.

    Christopher Lydon: Yehudi Wyner's life in music: composer with piano hands 2010

  • Jed L has a very interesting post at DailyKos.com debunking the notion promulgated by right wing writers such as Gerald Seib at the Wall Street Journal that Obama's mandate is similar to Bill Clinton's in 1992.

    Comparing Clinton's Win in 1992 to Obama's in 2008 Ron Buckmire 2008

  • Initially, the name promulgated was The Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy (CDRM) (or in Thai

    FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand facthai 2010

  • This should be completed before the Bill was promulgated, which is expected to happen in the first half of 1998.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • One, when a law exists, is promulgated, which is totally unacceptable to people and they violate it again and again and again till it's rescinded, appealed.

    Sproul Hall Sit-In Address 1964

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