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promulgate

[prom-uhl-gayt] / ˈprɒm əlˌgeɪt /


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On Monday, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said Macron "has decided to promulgate the law" containing the ban on phones, despite the Constitutional Council striking down its flagship provision.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Ms. Wentz is at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, whose “core mission” is to “develop and promulgate legal techniques to combat the climate crisis and advance climate justice.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

“Jim is still trying to promulgate an interest to all youth — come to the Filipino Hall for activities,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

He couldn’t easily promulgate it, though, because he had a tragic flaw: a severe speech impediment, perhaps a stutter.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Race, a keen source of conflict in the stories a society promulgates about itself, raises these stakes astronomically.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

That will come when the E.P.A. officially promulgates a proposed new rule, possibly later this year.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2021

James taught that the value of a practice or policy doesn’t depend on the authority or movement that promulgates it, nor on the philosophical framework from which it derives.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2020

Dec. 18, 2017: Pope Francis promulgates a decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Peyton, bestowing upon him the title of “venerable.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2018

You have been told how he promulgates around over every new place he visits and stares strangers out of countenance.

From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish

A rule promulgated in 2011 disallowed swaps tied to “gaming,” which the agency says includes bets on sports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Nearly 150 members of Congress — including more than a dozen Republicans — wrote a letter the day after the rule was promulgated expressing “disappointment” over the exclusion of post-baccalaureate nursing degrees.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

And if even one of those delicate matters falls through, the catastrophic disruption promulgated by the strait’s closure is likely to last indefinitely.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

These interventions were all functions of the Monroe Doctrine, first promulgated by President James Monroe in 1823.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

In the light of advancing science such theories are entirely untenable, and it was unfortunate for the system of medicine which he founded that Hahnemann should have promulgated such an hypothesis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

It also claimed Lara did not follow regulatory protocol in promulgating the new policy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

When reminiscing about films or promulgating his ideas on technique, Kurosawa comes across as approachable and marvelously unassuming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

National Resources Defense Council, and that case said that agencies should be given an enormous amount of deference in terms of the way that they interpret their own statutes when they’re promulgating regulations.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025

All state matters were rigorously scrutinized by Louis, and he spent hours planning troop movements, overseeing the building of roads and canals, and promulgating legal codes for France’s colonies.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Against the expediency of promulgating the doctrine there was a resolute and well-organised mass of opinion in the Council.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton




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