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forswear

[fawr-swair] / fɔrˈswɛər /


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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

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

Council forswear knee-jerk politics in favor of a thoughtful discussion about who — and what — best serves the interests of D.C. residents.

From Washington Post Dec. 3, 2020

But the DOJ has continued to forswear its own role.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2020

Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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 Gerard, John

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

What was the use spending one’s life in bringing an art to the perfection Patricia had attained and then suddenly forswearing it?

From The Maker of Opportunities by Gibbs, George




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