avow

There are still Laemmles in the movie business, and any Los Angeles cinephile will avow that the family is doing God’s work.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

U.S. secretary of state John Quincy Adams, however, considered it “more candid as well as more dignified” for the new country “to avow our principles explicitly” than to allow the British to take the lead.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

"Instead of trashing volunteerism as inherently elitist, why not avow and attest to its ongoing value as a vital part of necessary diversification and cultural change?"

From Fox News ● Oct. 17, 2021

He seems able to avow that desire readily and frankly!

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2021

“I avow, Serjeant, we shall commit ourselves wholly to philosophy without a grain of intelligence intermixed.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The ability to turn back whether or not you’ve reached your destination “takes preparation over many passing years,” avows Guterson.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2019

It avows an anti-elitist attentiveness to the industrially humdrum.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2019

So you’re off guard when you get to the part where he pines for reconciliation with Britain and avows that “I love my King.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2017

“I couldn’t have done it this well myself,” he avows.

From Slate ● May 22, 2016

W. Walker, James, avows transcendental views, 120; quoted, 120, 121; his theory of moral intuition, 215.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

By the end, and by her own hand, she was reduced to being a joyless hater of holidays and avowed enemy of All Things Fun.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

Charli is an avowed film buff, whose fifth album was named after David Cronenberg's notorious body-horror film Crash.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Few relationships have changed more for the president than that with Bezos, who has gone from an avowed enemy of the president to an energetic ally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, attending the summit as a guest, could not resist teasing Macron, an avowed fan of PSG's bitter southern rivals Olympique de Marseille.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

“You claim to be fighting oppression, but you spend more of your time fighting each other than in fighting your avowed enemies.”

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

The thing I love about poetry is its uselessness, the way it is, with a few exceptions, superfluous to capital, difficult to commodify, gratuitous in its insistence on avowing that which has been marked valueless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

Barron’s successor, Neeli Bendapudi, canceled the project in late October, avowing a commitment to equity and inclusion but saying it would be “more impactful” to enhance support for existing work on racial bias.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

She also thanked the female late-night hosts who have come before her, avowing that she “couldn’t have done it without them paving the path.”

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2019

One actor, while avowing his total support for the Fair Wage Onstage campaign, admitted that the conversation around it might be driving him out of the theatre.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2016

But they had no sooner crossed the threshold of the palace, than they were reconciled to each other, avowing that the dey had acted with justice, and thenceforth they lived happy and united as before.

From The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' by Julia Pardoe