pronunciamento

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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole."

From Time Magazine Archive

For two years Joseph Stalin had refrained from any public pronunciamento.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento.

From Time Magazine Archive

This treaty was really nothing but a pronunciamento of Bonaparte.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan