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To start things off, here are three personal-finance principles that I’ve come to swear by through my own wins and losses.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Walker added Cricket was well-known for "keeping his act clean" in a time where some of the clubs would not have allowed any type of crude language or swear words.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Under current law, Californians are required to provide identification when registering to vote and must swear under penalty of perjury, a felony, that they are eligible to vote and are U.S. citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

"I swear ... that I will faithfully carry out the duties of president of the republic," Peru's ninth president in a decade stated before Congress.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

And yet -he’d made Torak swear to find the Mountain.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

He swears to USA Today that he tries to “make wise decisions and moral decisions.”

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

Watch the actress discuss returning to “The Devil Wears Prada” nearly 20 years later, working with her husband John Krasinski on “A Quiet Place” and the parenting hot take she swears by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Nevertheless, in her beaver guise Mabel learns that Jerry’s team, which swears its development plans cleared the environmental-review process, deployed some skulduggery to make it work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Then they get a good look at his shoes when he stomps on their tables, kicking cheeseburgers as he tries to make these regular folks engage with the tech-pocalypse he swears is coming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

He swears they taste better than the ones on his floor....

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

And they waxed wroth against the High Priestess and said, Didst thou not sware, even unto seven times, that thou wouldst not call a snap election?

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2017

Club Houses—Whare the hen-pecked go tew sware, and smooth out their feathers.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

As likewise in contracts and mutual compacts of friendship, or stricter association, when edification, or other satisfaction, or security calls for it, as Jacob sware to Laban, David to Jonathan, &c.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

A fly, the dear, little, social innocent, kant make me sware, not even an abreviated dam.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, "As the Lord liveth, he shall not be put to death."

From Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students by Soares, Theodore Gerald

A fan of his is now mayor of New York; Mr. Sanders swore in Zohran Mamdani.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

News of the fire reached musician Linda Ronstadt, who swore that Dan Tana’s served the best plate of spaghetti in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Platner, in damage-control mode, acknowledged that he was occasionally a lousy boyfriend but denied any sort of physical abuse, swore that he has cleaned up his act, and pledged that no more skeletons will emerge.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2026

The 23 senators present donned maroon velvet robes Monday and swore to "do impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws of the Philippines" at the trial.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

I swore to myself as I piled the sheets and pillowcases back in.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The US has pledged £1bn in assistance to Colombia, after the country's new right-wing president was sworn in on Friday.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

“That conduct will never be tolerated among the ranks of those sworn to protect and serve.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru's ninth president in a decade at an official ceremony in Lima on Tuesday, AFP journalists observed.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Darline Graham Nordone is to be sworn in at 2:30 p.m. after the state’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster appointed her to serve as an interim replacement following the longtime lawmaker’s death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

It was too far away to tell what color its eyes were, but I could have sworn that they were as red as our old red rooster.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The business, based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, was known by many pubgoers for its eccentric rules including banning mobile phones, music, televisions and swearing at their sites.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

He whined that the singers who pulled out of the state fair are “Third Rate” and promised he would simply headline the event, swearing he is greater than Elvis, even “without a guitar.”

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Branding himself "The Tiger," the candidate has a penchant for swearing and is known for his hot temper.

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

Since swearing off first-date coffees and drinks two years ago, Murthy has gone out with fewer men overall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

The swearing, the straight razors, the shaving brushes, all these were my welcome to the masculine world.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides