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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

“Today’s FTC can bring civil enforcement suits against private parties, promulgate binding rules, issue final orders in administrative adjudications, and investigate potential violations of the law.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

Garofalo isn’t that different today than she was three decades ago, less likely to skewer those who promulgate unrealistic body standards than to confess her own.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

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

Achieving the first goal necessitates restraint and care, both from the SEC when it promulgates a rule and from Congress when it directs the commission to mandate disclosure on a subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

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

Mr. Miller now occupies a large West Wing office and has influence on virtually every element of immigration policy, from the words the president uses to the regulations he promulgates.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2019

With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts thro’ the waste wilderness, he promulgates his ten commands, glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay; 19.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne

And yet, the new policy promulgated by Homeland Security and U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Officials this month promulgated a series of economic plans centered on a GDP growth target of 4.5% to 5%, the lowest since 1991.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

The director for decades, J. Edgar Hoover, had promulgated enormous abuses of the bureau.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

Two days after the Kieff riot he promulgated a manifesto, framed by Pobiedonostzeff, and proclaiming the continuance of unqualified iron-handed absolutism.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan

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

Richard McNemar and John Thompson, of Washington Presbytery, were promulgating erroneous doctrines and that their Presbytery had refused to consider the petition implicating their orthodoxy.

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt


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