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U.S. diplomats asked both to forswear making nuclear fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

He said this would be the "challenge for this year" as he urged leaders to "forswear wedge issues" that render their opponents their enemies.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023

Breaking character is necessary to help Birds Aren’t Real leap to the next level and forswear actual conspiracy theorists, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

But some FDA watchers say those steps are not enough and that the agency should forswear use of an emergency authorization for a vaccine.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2020

“I thought you did not want the crown! Only yesterday, before we wed, you said you would forswear Denmark’s throne.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

The majority forswears any interest in going after other rights similarly grounded in the right to privacy.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

Wotan builds Valhalla to compensate for a loveless marriage; Alberich forswears love to forge the Ring.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016

That is the voice of today's latest edge, which forswears normality and happiness for the inevitable doom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2015

And any restaurant chain that forswears TV ads is in serious trouble.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2011

In this work he forswears florid writing, and makes a serious effort at dramatic characterization.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

These Asian nations forswore nukes because they trusted in American power.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

The two Koreas first forswore nuclear weapons in a solemn agreement in 1992, shortly after America removed tactical nuclear weapons from its bases in South Korea.

From Economist ● Jun. 7, 2018

The smell is so bad that it contaminates across space and time, sullying even its closest relative, Parenthood, another show about yuppies that forswore anything but uplifting resolution and ultimately turned all tribulations into celebrations.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2016

Embittered, Burdock Muldoon forswore any further attempts to integrate non-wizard members of the magical community into the Wizards’ Council.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

They have forsworn normalcy, these holy fools in decaying mansions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

None of this is to say that Rodrigo has forsworn the type of emotional melodrama that made her a star.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

But as Justice Sonia Sotomayor reminded Clement, “The city has forsworn any future prosecution for past violations.”

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2019

Have they forsworn the advancing of hypotheses by means of self-serving anecdotes?

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019

"If you do not return, the whole realm will know you forsworn."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It’s as if by forswearing the evanescent experience of real-life performing, Glenn Gould gave himself eternal fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

For Foley, who months earlier had pleaded with Attorney General William Barr to pursue justice by forswearing the death penalty, the fact the case was proceeding at all felt miraculous.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2020

Let’s instead assume that this really does bother her and at the same time that forswearing garlic forever would be a serious burden for you.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2020

All his life he was given to intense periods of noodling, forswearing meals, sleeping at his desk, testing and retesting his ideas, and shepherding his favored brainchildren to manufacture, marketability and profit.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019

The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster