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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Question No. 28 asked whether they swore allegiance to the U.S. and would forswear allegiance to the Japanese emperor.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024

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

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

It is the rare writer who forswears this paradigm through pessimism or scruple.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2020

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

Can you bring an Action of Theft for Trover or Conversion, or for one that having borrow'd a Thing forswears it, that puts a Trick upon one, by some such Artifice?

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

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

He got it because Theodore Roosevelt deluded himself into thinking that Taft would continue the Roosevelt legacy into the third term the Rough Rider forswore after 7 1/2 years in office.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 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

Staying off coffee — which Warren has forsworn — is tough amid the marathon days, but the rules allowing only water and milk on the Senate floor help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

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

So I can understand how someone who doesn’t would find it really difficult to bear—but I also know that forswearing garlic entirely would mean a real reduction in joy and pleasure for someone who does.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2020

Hurd, who is not forswearing public life, insists, “I’m just getting started.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019

After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind.

From John Barleycorn by Jack London