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heralded

[ her-uhl-did ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

proclaimed or announced; publicized:
Despite all the heralded breakthroughs in medicine over the last century, the human body remains largely a mystery.
having its coming signaled or indicated; ushered in:
The guerrilla fighters were not accustomed to pitched battles, nor to the trumpet-heralded attack.

First recorded in 1840–45; herald ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; herald ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz.

After a few hundred years, these voices start to resemble doomsday cultists—the end is often heralded but never delivered.

Even so, the fact that the show will be putting an end to one of those awful words should be heralded as a victory.

The Republican Governor of Louisiana was heralded as the new face of the party practically since he was first elected in 2007.

It has been eight years to the day since the Xbox 360 heralded the 7th generation of video game consoles.

Was Sir Hugh Wheeler aware of the proposed marriage, with all the terrible consequences that it heralded?

Irregular spurts of musketry heralded the appearance of confused masses of armed men.

Heralded by the host, the Parisian then mounted the stairs to Monsieur de Condillac's apartments.

Play-writers heralded it on the stage, bestowing upon it the passport of literary sanction.

The Richmond (p. 377) papers published the news, and it was heralded through the North.

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