pledge
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Mikie Sherrill became New Jersey’s new governor partly on a pledge to freeze electric rates after a 20% price spike.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Burnham would not be the first leader in recent years to pledge to address the issue of adult social care.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Meta joined the pledge in 2016 according to a Wayback Machine archive of RE100's website.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
The White House persuaded tech companies and utilities to pledge to avoid shifting data-center grid costs onto regular households.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
During the final weeks of the pledge process, we learned songs that taught us our sense of mission as well as brought us closer to one another.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
The show of support and pledges come amid a deepening selloff in chip and tech stocks globally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The show of support and pledges come amid a deepening selloff in chip and tech stocks globally as investors grow increasingly unsettled about massive spending on AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Business executives quite properly have taken these pledges with mounds of salt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The plan also pledges that by 2029, all buildings 36ft or above with unsafe cladding will either have been remediated, have a date for completion, or the landlords will be liable for severe penalties.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
After every pledge night that I missed, I would hear all the horror stories from the pledges.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
But after warning recently that the measures wouldn’t be enough, executives pledged to go further as they seek to make the sprawling group leaner and more efficient.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Leaders of India's youth-led "Cockroach" movement said they would meet the government on Friday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged legal reforms and swift punishment for those involved in exam paper leaks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Campaigns scrambled to offer their own slates of delegates who they thought would be pledged to them.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Kennedy told The Times he also clashed with Haden’s successor, Lynn Swann, over pledged funding for the Galen Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Many boys were pledged or even married in their early teens, and some, where the uniting of high-class families was at issue, to older girls.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
Xi made his first-ever personal appearance at China’s flagship AI conference last week in Shanghai, pledging 5,000 free AI training slots to developing countries and launching a new “World AI Cooperation Organization.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Unfazed by past failures, Zhu stepped down from his CEO role at GigaDevice in 2018 to become the CEO of CXMT, reportedly pledging to take no salary until the company was profitable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
It is, for example, contributing $1.6bn to the overall deal with Kenya, external - with the East African nation pledging $850m over five years.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
SpaceX is such a cult holding that he knows that at the first hint that he was selling or pledging his shares, he would reap the whirlwind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
But trying to imagine Katherine pledging herself to a life as a spinster doesn't quite fit.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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