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
Only regarding the next can we vouchsafe certainty.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 14, 2018
In a space becoming tighter by the hour, here was an artist determined to vouchsafe whatever freedom he could for his imagination.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 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
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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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I have always thought that in connection with those abnormal conditions nature vouchsafes us glimpses into her most mysterious depths.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
An imprecation is the only reply the other vouchsafes, and again they exchange shots.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Be satisfied, my dear, that while I have my Senses, and God vouchsafes me his Protection, I shall do nothing unworthy the Character of an honest Man, and one that loves his Family.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
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
As if we will be vouchsafed some new vision, some new path, some new direction.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2017
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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Verily it would seem to be a gracious and an especial vouchsafing in my favour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
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