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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
Sara Hussain, Vogue, 22 May 2025
Their origination shouldn't be entirely surprising, especially for those who swear by Korean sunscreens.
—Marie Lodi, Allure, 22 May 2025
Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
Biggest takeaways from 'Hard Knocks' with Bears: An HBO show with no swears?
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Some swear by kasturi manjal (wild turmeric); others make do with what’s on hand.
—Sara Hussain, Vogue, 22 May 2025
Their origination shouldn't be entirely surprising, especially for those who swear by Korean sunscreens.
—Marie Lodi, Allure, 22 May 2025
Noun
There’s a heavy focus on Asia’s first One&Only spa, featuring a green caviar body exfoliation and an Augustinus Bader facial celebs swear by.
—Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
Biggest takeaways from 'Hard Knocks' with Bears: An HBO show with no swears?
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swear
Verb
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In rules introduced by the FIA ahead of the season, F1 drivers could be penalized – with monetary fines or loss of championship points – for cursing in press conferences.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
15 May 2025
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Whispers of an old legend resurface, warning that the play might be cursed.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
15 May 2025
Verb
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Trump has promised mass deportations and has moved to roll back Biden-era immigration policies.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Former President Joe Biden blocked the sale on national security grounds, and, as a presidential candidate, Trump also promised to block it.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
30 May 2025
Verb
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Combs’ former employee Capricorn Clark is expected to testify first, followed by two law enforcement officials.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
25 May 2025
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Johnson testified to the legislature that COMBAT funding is at the top of the list of issues the budget freeze has caused in the prosecutor’s office.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
24 May 2025
Noun
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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
Verb
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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
Verb
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Bonta, the California attorney general, has vowed to sue.—
Camila Domonoske,
NPR,
22 May 2025
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Changes to Medicaid: Trump has vowed to protect Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for Americans with low incomes and disabilities.—
Elisabeth Rosenthal,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2025
Verb
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But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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In theory, the Cavs could damn the torpedoes for a span of two seasons before the real, lasting damage from the second apron hits in the form of a frozen draft pick that is moved to the end of the 2033 first round.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
Verb
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Signatories pledged to halve emissions, but efforts are hard to quantify.—
Lea Lane,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Once the case in Romania concludes, authorities pledged to honor the UK's request to extradite them to face trial in Britain for the separate allegations of rape and human trafficking involving different women between 2012 and 2015.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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“Swear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swear. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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