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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
Sherri Gordon, Parents, 23 Oct. 2025
This is why so many great writers swear by deliberately messy first passes.
—Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
Patullo tore off his headset with a rare and celebratory swear.
—Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Some parents even swear by certain hacks for relieving ear pain during air travel.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 23 Oct. 2025
This is why so many great writers swear by deliberately messy first passes.
—Big Think, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
These men started talking to us, saying stuff to us, but Ivan just opened her mouth and let loose a raging stream of swears and curses.
—Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
Patullo tore off his headset with a rare and celebratory swear.
—Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swear
Verb
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The officer said Snider started cursing and yelling at the hospital staff.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Videos during that flight show equipment falling from the ceiling of the plane, with roughly 20 crew members cursing and laughing as they are thrown against their safety harnesses.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Both candidates have bemoaned the state's high cost of living and surging energy prices, with Ciattarelli vowing to lower New Jersey's high property taxes and Sherrill promising to freeze electricity bills.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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Campaign ads, showing images of flash-mob robberies, promised voters that harsher penalties would put an end to basic items being locked away in display cases and funnel people repeatedly arrested for drug offenses in treatment.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Gonzales is being held without bail at the Bridgewater State Hospital after a doctor testified that Gonzales has a serious mental illness.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Despite her own children not being called to testify, the triplet's mother, Stacy Chapin, said that the fact these students would not have to appear in court during a trial was the best thing to come out of the plea deal Kohberger struck with prosecutors on July 2, 2025.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 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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Watching Rome, Shiv, and Ken attempt to battle, scrape, and betray their way into their father’s heart—and, conversely, seeing Logan withhold, meter out, and blaspheme his version of love back at them—propelled Succession through four glorious seasons.—
John Ortved,
Vogue,
29 Oct. 2025
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Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2024
Verb
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Both candidates have bemoaned the state's high cost of living and surging energy prices, with Ciattarelli vowing to lower New Jersey's high property taxes and Sherrill promising to freeze electricity bills.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement Mamdani’s political success is largely credited to a media-savvy campaign that centered affordability in one of the world’s most expensive cities, with Mamdani vowing to levy New York’s ultra-rich to pay for childcare, transportation, and even grocery stores.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Of all the sins that might damn your soul for eternity, mumbling is probably pretty far down the list.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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With Blonde, premiering this week in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s main competition, rising 38-year-old director Yuichiro Sakashita delivers a sharp, quietly damning satire of conformity in Japan’s education system.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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He was released after a few weeks in jail when filmmaker Jen Gatien pledged her $2 million Manhattan apartment where the combat veteran was living as collateral for a bond.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Nov. 2025
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Lai has pledged to increase military spending to 5% of GDP by 2030, strengthening the island’s defenses in the face of a rising threat from its giant neighbor China.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Swear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swear. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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