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as in to promise
to make a solemn declaration of intent
swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
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as in curse
a disrespectful or indecent word or expression
can't you express your frustration without using swears?
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Recent Examples of swear
Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024
So, if this drink can’t help get contractions started, why do so many people swear by it?
—Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 20 Dec. 2024
Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2023
Inland Istria While first-time visitors to Istria, easily one of the best places to visit in Croatia, make a beeline for the coast, those in the know swear by the peninsula's green interior.
—Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
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Verb
There are certain stores that bargain hunters swear by.
—Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 20 Dec. 2024
So, if this drink can’t help get contractions started, why do so many people swear by it?
—Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
Chicago was one of three cities to come in fourth place, with an average of 17 daily swears.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2023
Inland Istria While first-time visitors to Istria, easily one of the best places to visit in Croatia, make a beeline for the coast, those in the know swear by the peninsula's green interior.
—Anja Mutic, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2023
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Metamorpho: Anthony Carrigan plays the shape-shifting Rex Mason, aka a man turned into a mass of chemicals after being cursed by an ancient artifact.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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We’re cursed with loudmouth, throwback hippie socialists in high places, but Arlington’s a pretty, quiet town bracketed by mountains and made famous by Norman Rockwell, who lived and did his best work here from the 1930s into the ’50s.Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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Along with prioritizing the deportation of military-age Chinese immigrants, Trump has promised to end birthright citizenship, stripping rights from those born in the country to undocumented parents.Aarne Heikkila, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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This everyone-gets-pork spending bill at year’s end is the sort of thing Johnson had promised not to do as speaker.The Editors, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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Senior government officials have testified at various government hearings over the last week revealing some extraordinary details about the night of the martial law order.Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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There is no credible evidence of an insider trading investigation into the former House speaker, much less that Thompson was scheduled to testify against her when he was killed.Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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And, when the alarm wails hours before dawn, human cusses of angry protest join the chorus of budget appliances failing before their time.Virginia Konchan, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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My grandmother extended a ladder up into this tough old cuss of a tree and climbed up, at some risk, to pick the bulging fruit.Jim Meddleton, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2024
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Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
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Earlier this month, Abdul Rauf, a Muslim English teacher, was gunned down in Turbat after his students accused him of blaspheming in one of his lectures.Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
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President-elect Trump has vowed to stop some of the programs that have allowed people seeking asylum to enter the country, as well as to close the border to those entering without legal grounds.Bill Conerly, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Trump also has vowed to remove subsidies for purchasing EVs, which have assisted in spurring sales while federal benefits still exist.Michael Wayland, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
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Many take a different view, believing Joel’s actions to be entirely selfish and quite possibly damning the entire human race.Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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William has barely finished damning everyone in his immediate vicinity when the British soldiers who’ve been chasing Jamie enter the house.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 6 Dec. 2024
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Whitsett had previously pledged to skip session or refuse to vote over frustrations with the legislative agenda.Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 18 Dec. 2024
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Trump previously pledged on the campaign trail to support having the government or insurance companies pay for all IVF treatments.Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Swear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swear. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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