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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

“Warsh’s pledge of allegiance to the target seems to have convinced the business press he is an inflation hawk,” said Ethan Harris, former chief economist at BofA Securities.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Meta has abandoned a global pledge by leading companies to source all of their electricity from renewable sources, the social media giant confirmed Friday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

VAT will be cut from household electricity bills, the government has announced, as part of new prime minister Andy Burnham's pledge to help with the cost of living.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

God’s house had been everything to me: a house of joy and the center of our private sanctuary—where we met to organize and pledge to support each other.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

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

In doing so, he made five pledges to the public, including working with other parties in a "distinctively Labour" direction and transferring power from Westminster to local authorities.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Business executives quite properly have taken these pledges with mounds of salt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Many say they were moved by his pledges to tame inflation, rebuild U.S. infrastructure, cut red tape and trim government waste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

After twenty-four hours of tireless work, Anthony went to the university trustees and presented $8,000 in pledges to make up the shortfall.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

In a social media message, he pledged to set up fast-track courts to try exam-cheating cases and said the well-being of India’s young people was a priority for him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed the move, which he had pledged to introduce to mark the end of his decade in office.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

In taking the veterinarian’s oath, she had pledged herself to a code of honor that bound her to the care of animals but also bound her to the saving of human lives through medicine.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

“We’ve missed for five years, and we’re going to fix that,” he said, pledging that the committee would “unambiguously and unanimously” deliver price stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Charlie O’Brien stares at me for a very long time, his hand spread on his chest as though he were pledging an oath.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen