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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of trumpet.

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Examples

  • And it wasn't just something she stumbled on as an aside and hoped it would not be questioned, but something they trumpeted from the ramparts hoping to convince people of its truth by cynically trading on their reputation.

    14 Important Science Questions 2008

  • No. Choice -- a word trumpeted by George W. Bush -- really means something in Mexico.

    Ronda Kaysen: A Joyride Through Mexico's Healthcare System 2008

  • It may be that the attack on this thread is meant to trigger a ban so it can be trumpeted from the right-wing blogs.

    Think Progress » Help Improve ThinkProgress 2005

  • Dolores could not deny this, but she was hurt by the word trumpeted; and besides, her own slippery behaviour was weakening her trust in other people's sincerity, and she only gave a kind of grunt; but

    The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • While he and other executives on the call trumpeted the advancements, he was adamant that the set-top box wasn't about to disappear anytime soon.

    Updated: Comcast's Roberts: The Set-Top Box Isn't Going To Disappear - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • While he and other executives on the call trumpeted the advancements, he was adamant that the set-top box wasn't about to disappear anytime soon.

    Updated: Comcast's Roberts: The Set-Top Box Isn't Going To Disappear - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • While he and other executives on the call trumpeted the advancements, he was adamant that the set-top box wasn't about to disappear anytime soon.

    Comcast's Roberts: The Set-Top Box Isn't Going To Disappear - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • The reversal of the "Hitlerite" charge-the casting of Hamas as the new Nazis, as Goldberg's title trumpeted-is disturbing, for a reason that Goldberg himself expounded upon:

    CJR 2009

  • Somewhere, far behind in the forest, a stag trumpeted, or seemed to.

    The Lioness Berberick, Nancy Varian 2002

  • We feel also that Canada would derive immense benefits from the Exposition by having its name trumpeted throughout the world, by making nearly every nation of the earth aware of its riches and potentialities, of the vigour of its industrial and commercial life; by being the host to millions of visitors who will travel far and wide and who will in no small way contribute to sustain and increase its economic activity.

    For Whom The Big City Tolls 1967

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