announce

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  1. transitive verb To make known publicly.
  2. transitive verb To proclaim the presence or arrival of: announce a caller.
  3. transitive verb To provide an indication of beforehand; foretell: The invention of the microchip announced a new generation of computers.

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  • Wish to announce--wish to announce, anyway, Gentlemen She tipped suddenly. —  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
  • I saw this on python-announce, and all I can say is "What the heck?" —  Planet Python
  • But not everyone believes that Lehman will pre-announce, and there is some speculation that Lehman itself could be spreading the rumor of a pre-announcement in order to create the impression that things are better than feared and boost its stock. —  Dealbreaker
  • As the title announce, this one is all about The Underground. —  Dancetracks Digital: New Downloads
  • Using voice announce, the speaker phone let's users know who's calling and actually guides them through the initial Bluetooth —  SlashPhone
 

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  1. Middle English announcen, from Old French anoncier, from Latin annūntiāre : ad-, ad- + nūntiāre, to report (from nūntius, messenger; see neu- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from late Middle English anounce, from Old French anoncer, anoncier, anuncier, modern F. annoncer = Provencal Portuguese annunciar = Spanish anunciar = Italian annunziare, from Latin annunciare, properly annuntiare, adnuntiare, make known, proclaim, announce, from ad, to, + nunciare, prop, nuntiare, report, give a message, from nuntius, a messenger: see nuncio. Cf. denounce, enounce, pronounce, renounce.
 

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