the Pledge of Allegiance
noun phrase
US
: a formal promise of loyalty to the United States that groups of people say together
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Trump’s rallies sometimes start with a rendition of the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance featuring his voice alongside inmates charged in the riot, including some convicted of assaulting police.
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Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Leading everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance, after brief remarks, was Judge Learned Hand, who was seventy-two and in his twentieth year on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan.
—Lincoln Caplan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2024
Eighteen rising kindergartners, hands over hearts, recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
—Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article Donald Trump is selling special-edition Bibles that include copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance and come as ex-president faces mounting legal bills from his ongoing court cases.
—Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
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Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
Leading everyone in the Pledge of Allegiance, after brief remarks, was Judge Learned Hand, who was seventy-two and in his twentieth year on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan.
—Lincoln Caplan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2024
Eighteen rising kindergartners, hands over hearts, recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
—Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Listen to this article Loading your audio article Donald Trump is selling special-edition Bibles that include copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance and come as ex-president faces mounting legal bills from his ongoing court cases.
—Evan Rosen, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2024
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