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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
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Kris Holt, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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
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Verb
Pick up Babo Botanicals's Sensitive Baby Mineral Sunscreen, which SELF's senior commerce writer swears by for her easily-irritated skin.
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Some people swear by the power of the Plank, and two of those people happen to be testers on WIRED's team.
—Julia Forbes, Wired News, 10 July 2025
Noun
The station asked the band not to include the swears.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swear
Verb
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King Sisyphus was cursed to spend his afterlife pushing a boulder up a hill.—
John Wiswell,
People.com,
3 July 2025
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So being able to channel that going forward, he’s got some of that Cam Spencer crazy competitiveness, he’s got to learn to channel it like Cam, go from cursing and slamming the ball to getting back on task quicker.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
Verb
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The stream, which started about 20 minutes later than promised earlier on social media, began with long shots of an Iceman warehouse until Drake eventually appeared.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
5 July 2025
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That is rich, coming from a presidential administration that promised to fight bureaucracy.—
Emma Collum,
Sun Sentinel,
5 July 2025
Verb
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McGee, the driver of the car, is also expected to testify.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
14 July 2025
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Scott has since agreed to a plea deal and testified as a key witness for the prosecution in Serafini’s trial.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 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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Dayton vowed to come back and audition again in 2025.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
8 July 2025
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Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle vowed Monday to move forward with the prosecution of the 38-year-old twin Alexander brothers in the same case — even with the likelihood of trial being remote.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 July 2025
Verb
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Casada's resignation as speaker came after damning text messages between him and Cothren surfaced, which led to the House Republican Caucus voting no confidence in him and Cothren being pushed out of his job.—
Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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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
Verb
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The Houston Texans have pledged $500,000 to the community after a deadly flash flood in Texas Hill Country claimed the lives of at least 32 people, including children, Friday.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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Franks pledged to continue calling an emergency meeting each day until the council reaches an agreement about the cooling center.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
4 July 2025
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“Swear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swear. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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