announced

comparative more announced · superlative most announced

1. Having been preceded by an announcement; declared.

   Boccherini's textural, lineless music offers many such passages that invite the listener to suppose something "barely announced."

   2006, Elisabeth Le Guin, Boccherini’s Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology, page 75

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   But this test's very announced purpose was to measure and evaluate seismic signals at effective distances extending from the point of testing out to all distances where the signal could be detected.

   1958, Control and Reduction of Armaments - Part 17, page 1596

   Rational-expectations believers presumably must fall back on unannounced and inappropriate policies (monetary or other) , having declared that announced policies will be discounted ex ante.

   1994, Philip A. Klein, Beyond Dissent: Essays in Institutional Economics, page 92

   The RCN calls for the CQC to undertake more announced and unannounced inspections, and for staffing metrics to be explicitly included within their approach.

   2011, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee, Annual accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission, page 40

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