How to Use promulgate in a Sentence

promulgate

verb
  • Her ideas have been widely promulgated on the Internet.
  • The law was promulgated in April 1988.
  • But that by itself was not enough to promulgate the result through the field.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Northam hoped to use the law to promulgate rules that would protect trans students.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • If lessons from those countries that have turned the tide were promulgated a lot of good could be done.
    — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • This process isn’t what the progressives who promulgate more inclusive forms of speech had in mind.
    — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Our progress, as promulgated by its boosters, has been toward a more perfect union.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Agencies can, and do, promulgate regulations, which have the force of law.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The details are often adrift in time, but the stories thrive and promulgate when they can be tied to a location.
    — Elizabeth Friend, Longreads, 29 Oct. 2024
  • These rules are promulgated in the name of consumer protection.
    — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The religious group had also come under fire for the way in which members promulgated their faith.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 14 June 2018
  • Among other things, Castellanos was said to have used the kites to promulgate rules—reglas—as to how the gang should behave.
    — Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The study’s founders and leaders helped promulgate the American Plan.
    — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2018
  • There are still federal regulations to work out and local rules to promulgate.
    — Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • The league has promulgated rules that substantially limit how and when teams compete.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • There were several laws promulgated and amended that gave the internment a legal fig-leaf.
    — Naresh Fernandes, Quartz India, 6 Jan. 2020
  • White supremacy is being tolerated, even promulgated, by those in the seats of power in this country and abroad.
    — Hara Person, Time, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Complex rules get promulgated, but the firms impacted by them are often in the dark (yet liable for any non-compliance).
    — William Dunkelberg, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • His last act was to promulgate a memo that sharply limited how DOJ could use consent decrees in the future.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The colonial government promulgated a land-survey ordinance that forced landowners to report the size and area of their land.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The lawsuit argues that the OMB promulgated the use of the clause in question to justify the cuts.
    — Michael Casey, Denver Post, 25 June 2025
  • Most important of all, the White House has so far failed to promulgate a consistent ideology.
    — Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020
  • That idea was kind of promulgated by Christian writers like Saint Augustine.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In the minutes and hours following the shooting, graphic, close-up videos of the moment Kirk was hit promulgated across the internet.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • That version of the story, with Pareja at the center, has been widely promulgated for generations.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • The bill would require the finance department to promulgate rules to implement the disbursement of the grants to the pregnancy resource centers.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 3 Mar. 2022
  • For those hopes to become a reality, the administration must move swiftly to promulgate the program rules, staff up, and expedite the process.
    — Steven Banks, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • This is the theory that Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, promulgated.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 May 2025
  • If this were a series of videos showing people being blown up for not believing in God, there would be a campaign to shut down the organization promulgating the videos.
    — Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2010
  • Wisconsinites were eager to move on from the damage and embarrassment brought about by their state’s starring role in promulgating the Red Scare that had ruined many lives.
    — Nancy C. Unger / Made By History, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024

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