You have to ask yourself how the words were pronounced at the time.

A police report pronounced his death, at 47, an accident.

"The middle of the element's clear now," he pronounced at last.

'Used to be three five one,' he pronounced at last.

If needed you may ask how to pronounce someone's name at this juncture.

She had pronounced the contract at an end, and there was no redress.

She pronounced at length with difficulty: 'Where shall we meet?

He pronounced it with a liquid lilt at the end of the word.

He pronounced it to be entirely modern, with no Neanderthal features at all.

"You have quite the look of him," she pronounced at last, leaning back against the cushions piled behind her.