forswear
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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
While I have yet to forswear friendship and its succor entirely — maybe one day!
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
That is partly because more companies are targeting omnivores who seek to reduce the amount of meat they eat, rather than forswear it altogether.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
“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
Dr. Volkow generally forswears any interest in politics per se, but midway through a long day of meetings last month she sighed and acknowledged, “science and politics are intertwined.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
Gerard lxi, lxvii, Brother Emerson ccliv, takes a bribe lxix, forswears himself lxvii, ccxviii, dies miserably lxxix.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by John Gerard
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
Japan, which has forsworn combat since the end of World War II, had not sent military matériel to another country in the midst of fighting a war in more than 75 years.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2022
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
"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
In the campaign, Mr. Johnson stuck to a disciplined strategy, forswearing the clownishness that has characterized his political career.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
She felt that, after a deed of such sacrifice as she had achieved in forswearing love, she had earned an extra license in her draperies.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
Vocabulary lists containing forswear
Romeo and Juliet
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Othello
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