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[dih-klair] / dɪˈklɛər /




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Fujimori, on the other hand, said the result showed a "dead heat" and that there will be long "days ahead" to declare a winner.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Blanche ultimately had to declare under oath that the administration was “no longer moving forward with the fund, period.”

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

Technically, local election officials have 30 days to process and certify all ballots, though it rarely takes that entire time to declare a winner.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

A top commission—stacked with a former European Union climate commissioner, a former prime minister of Iceland, other former ministers and environmental campaigners—has recommended that the health body declare climate change a global health emergency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

This tendency is what led Frederick Douglass to declare that “power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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