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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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

When he vouchsafes to give answers, his inspiration takes the form of frenzy—but he neither hurts nor speaks to any one.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

And even more happy than proud, since the most splendid gift which the Divine Being from time to time vouchsafes to poor humanity is that of genius.

From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Elliott Graeme

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

The clouds were parting, and the sun was vouchsafing some thin rays from the northwest.

From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy




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