noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
public
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Not surprisingly, many gentry and clergy modified their public pronouncements accordingly, surviving both Parliamentary rule and the Restoration.
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Milosevic, who has remained in seclusion for the past two weeks, has yet to make any public pronouncement .
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Shrewd in the transfer market and refreshingly frank in his public pronouncements , Lennie has been the signing of the season.
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Such public health pronouncements often go unheeded, however.
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That the crisis was entering its final stage was evident from de Gaulle's public pronouncements .
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Of course, the 49ers' public pronouncements regarding contract desires, and the results, often are not the same.
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He made a public pronouncement that the Philharmonie was impossible to record in.
■ VERB
make
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The Secretary of State is also prone to make pronouncements which can be highly relevant, especially on appeal.
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Milosevic, who has remained in seclusion for the past two weeks, has yet to make any public pronouncement .
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In any case, he felt he ought to stop making too many major pronouncements of this kind.
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Some professor who has no training at all looks at a manuscript for a few days and makes pronouncements ?
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What John is doing in each situation is very much the same: he is making a pronouncement about something.
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The Lacanian theorist will thus deliberately tease his reader by refusing to make any final pronouncements .
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Of course, he could make no pronouncement .
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Only two texts make sweeping pronouncements about the role of voluntas in trusts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes, she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement .
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By law, Pope is allowed seven days from the pronouncement of the verdict and sentence to appeal.
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For these prophetic pronouncements, exactly the same process of checking and testing is appropriate.
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Her pronouncements were delivered with the formality of a Vatican edict.
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Market watchers meticulously noted his occasional technology pronouncements.
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Some professor who has no training at all looks at a manuscript for a few days and makes pronouncements?
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These pronouncements became, in time, self-fulfilling prophesies.
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These pronouncements were not necessarily written down and so they might be carried off into oblivion by the winds of time.