oath
Example Sentences
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Boyd had testified under oath in a deposition a year ago that he didn’t recall deleting anything on his phone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
In separate statements, Garcia and Khanna said that Bondi remains legally obligated to appear before the House Oversight Committee and testify under oath about what they called a “botched” handling of the Epstein investigation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
"It makes me even more delighted to have a 35-year-old youth as my successor," the outgoing interim prime minister, who hugged Shah after he took the oath, said in a statement.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
District Judge Zahid Quraishi to unload on career prosecutors last Monday, throwing one out of the courtroom and ordering the “triumvirate” to testify under oath about their illegal leadership structure.
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026
Tom was a dedicated family man, but like his father he was attracted to the darkness, and in 1917 he took the oath to become a special agent of the Bureau of Investigation.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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