Vocabulary
Pronouncement
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a formal or authoritative announcement or declaration.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- We must greet this pronouncement cautiously.
- The only public pronouncement on the issue came from the psychopathic Israeli prime minister, who described his renewed onslaught on starving Gaza as part of a journey towards the realisation of the Trump `Gaza Riviera Plan`.
- This latest pronouncement only reinforces the fears of those who see the plan as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.
- Stranger still was the pronouncement after the meeting: a grand opposition alliance, to be steered by Mr Shahid Khagan Abbasi, himself a former PML-N prime minister, will be mobilising a resistance movement against the current regime.
- This latest pronouncement only reinforces the fears of those who see the plan as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.
Curator example
“distrust of the pronouncements of politicians was endemic”
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