vouchsafe
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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
All of my life, I had never rid myself of the preposterous idea that someday Young would vouchsafe to me some life-altering truth, until one day it happened.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
Only regarding the next can we vouchsafe certainty.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 14, 2018
"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
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Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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"Be satisfied, my dear, that while I have my Senses, and God vouchsafes me this Protection, I shall do nothing unworthy the Character of an honest Man, and one that loves his Family."
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
But it is the case, in this life, that the Eternal Power always vouchsafes the success of a brave action to one alone, so that others cumber themselves about it in vain.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Come, for our rulers come; and Death, whose feet Tread at the door, permits a minute's sweet; To each man's soul vouchsafes a glimpse, a gleam, A touch, a breath of his intensest dream.
From King Cole by John Masefield
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
But is he listing what he actually saw, or what was vouchsafed to him in the euphoric act of seeing?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
In a landmark judgment in 1992 on PII certificates, Lord Justice Bingham stated: “Public interest immunity is not a trump card vouchsafed to certain privileged players to play when and as they wish”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2018
The gods had not even vouchsafed him that much.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
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And without vouchsafing him another glance, she went in to where the body of her father lay, and locked the door.
From The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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