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as in to promise
to make a solemn declaration of intent
swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
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as in curse
a disrespectful or indecent word or expression
can't you express your frustration without using swears?
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Recent Examples of swear
Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
Trump and Biden are the oldest presidents to have been sworn into office.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Kris Holt, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
There’s a heavy focus on Asia’s first One&Only spa, featuring a green caviar body exfoliation and an Augustinus Bader facial celebs swear by.
—Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
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Verb
One shopper who used it on a six-day snorkeling trip even swears by it to prevent getting sunburned while swimming.
—Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
Trump and Biden are the oldest presidents to have been sworn into office.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
The station asked the band not to include the swears.
—Kris Holt, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
There’s a heavy focus on Asia’s first One&Only spa, featuring a green caviar body exfoliation and an Augustinus Bader facial celebs swear by.
—Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swear
Verb
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In other words, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.—
Derek Robertson,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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Trueman will executive produce the series, which follows an aspiring author, cursed with writer’s block and ridden with debt, who is offered a huge amount of money to commit a heinous crime.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
8 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Take, for example, promised benefits that ultimately could not be delivered due to medical underwriting restrictions.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Hickman smiled and promised — in descriptive terms — to get them through their first time.—
Kylie Volavongsa,
jsonline.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Although identified as a victim, Huynh was never called to testify as prosecutors lost contact with both her and her lawyer ahead of the trial, despite being subpoenaed.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Lawson admitted to doing so while testifying at his own trial.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And, when the alarm wails hours before dawn, human cusses of angry protest join the chorus of budget appliances failing before their time.—
Virginia Konchan,
The New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2024
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My grandmother extended a ladder up into this tough old cuss of a tree and climbed up, at some risk, to pick the bulging fruit.—
Jim Meddleton,
The Christian Science Monitor,
1 May 2024
Verb
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Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2024
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Earlier this month, Abdul Rauf, a Muslim English teacher, was gunned down in Turbat after his students accused him of blaspheming in one of his lectures.—
Hasan Ali,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Aug. 2023
Verb
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Trump vowed to pay for the ballroom with private funds — which means, of course, that someone else will curry favor and pay.—
Maureen Dowd,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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Reversing the migration trend During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump vowed to reverse the trend.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Nell provides not only proof of Nan's parentage but the necessary evidence to damn Mr. St. George as an adulterer.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
30 July 2025
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Maybe not with the most composure or finesse, but damned if not with spirit and grit.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
Verb
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While some major lawmakers have commented on weather modification, none have pledged to ban chemtrails as Mace suggested on Wednesday.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Aug. 2025
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The landmark original pledged Musk laddered awards of 1% of Tesla stock, each granted as the valuation rose by an additional $50 billion.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Swear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swear. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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