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vouchsafe

[vouch-seyf] / vaʊtʃˈseɪf /


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“And it’s my first time at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. I suppose, given the circumstances, it’s OK to vouchsafe my secrets or at least one secret about this book.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2022

And requiring that staff safeguard themselves and others is not “socialism”; it’s a necessity to vouchsafe the public welfare.

From Washington Post Nov. 19, 2021

Only regarding the next can we vouchsafe certainty.

From The New Yorker Nov. 14, 2018

“I never noticed Katharine Graham wearing a Washington Post sweatshirt to vouchsafe her loyalty. I’m just saying.”

From New York Times Nov. 29, 2017

"To vouchsafe for our good intentions, my brother Ser Perwyn will remain here until she is safely returned to you."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service.

From Time Magazine Archive

We secure the latter firmly to the couch; the former vouchsafes to deliver a stream of car chases and oh-no-they-locked-themselves-in-the-walk-in-freezer episodes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still I am wordless, whereupon he vouchsafes, with an exasperating drawl, that the fly's one virtue lies in the fact that it prefers picturesque food which is very eatable.

From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck

He alone realises the hopelessness of his situation, and his restless brain-activity refuses him the relative oblivion which resignation vouchsafes to many others of his companions in distress.

From Vagaries by Axel Munthe

Cyril leaves me without a word, and goes out looking like a ghost, and you tell me that something is troubling him, and yet neither of you vouchsafes me one word of explanation.'

From Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Being in Iran hasn’t vouchsafed them much happiness.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

God has vouchsafed to me a priceless gift in the weapon of ahimsa.

From Textbooks Jun. 15, 2022

In a statement in February, however, the Taliban affirmed that the rights vouchsafed to women by Islam included business ownership, inheritance, education, work, choosing one’s husband, security, health, and “a good life.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 21, 2019

Only much later does Anthony realize that he has been vouchsafed a vision of the Grail King.

From Washington Post Dec. 27, 2017

We shall know more about them all, in half an hour, from you, than Miss Fairfax would have vouchsafed in half a year.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

A pivotal battleground would be in the Central Valley, where spraying of the herbicide is common l and agricultural groups defend it as an essential tool in controlling weeds and vouchsafing the food supply.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2017

Instead, Mr. Pence has thrown himself into the work with relish, constantly vouchsafing the character of “this good man” Donald Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2016

I thank Mr. Nichols for vouchsafing us that glimpse of a watershed opening night in American drama, an uncommon gift from one theater lover to many others.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2012

Lahiri speaks quietly and deliberately, vouchsafing only the occasional smile.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Magnhild swept past her and went into the sitting-room without vouchsafing a reply.

From Magnhild Dust by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson




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