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as in treaty
a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples the two countries signed a peace covenant that, it was hoped, would put an end to decades of bitter conflict

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as in agreement
an arrangement about action to be taken the covenant that existed among neighbors in olden times whereby they would quickly respond to the call to help put out one another's house fires

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as in to bargain
to come to an arrangement as to a course of action a traditional rule held that a husband could not enter into a covenant with his wife, because that was the equivalent of covenanting with himself

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as in to promise
to make a solemn declaration of intent the home buyers had to covenant that they would restore and keep the house for at least 10 years in exchange for a low mortgage rate

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Additionally, private credit deals often include covenants and other protections that help mitigate risk in challenging economic environments. Patrick Dwyer, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024 Prevented from moving to the suburbs by racist lending practices and housing covenants, other Black families soon bought into the neighborhood. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024 In the 1950s, South LA had the highest concentration of Japanese Americans in the country, after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted racist housing covenants and Japanese migrant farm workers settled into enclaves like Boyle Heights. Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024 Usually, however, the covenants operate more like assumptions that come back to bite sustainability leaders later. Jody L. Bickel, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for covenant 

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“Covenant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/covenant. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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