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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
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Some people swear by the power of the Plank, and two of those people happen to be testers on WIRED's team.
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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
Pick up Babo Botanicals's Sensitive Baby Mineral Sunscreen, which SELF's senior commerce writer swears by for her easily-irritated skin.
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Some people swear by the power of the Plank, and two of those people happen to be testers on WIRED's team.
—Julia Forbes, Wired News, 10 July 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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King Sisyphus was cursed to spend his afterlife pushing a boulder up a hill.—
John Wiswell,
People.com,
3 July 2025
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So being able to channel that going forward, he’s got some of that Cam Spencer crazy competitiveness, he’s got to learn to channel it like Cam, go from cursing and slamming the ball to getting back on task quicker.—
Joe Arruda,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
Verb
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Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel both promised to release more information on the case after joining the administration, and Trump allies like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk have also publicly called for the files to be made public.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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The news closely followed Microsoft’s Aurora announcement, an AI foundation model that promises to revolutionize not just weather forecasting but environmental prediction broadly.—
Renny Vandewege,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Verb
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Scott has since agreed to a plea deal and testified as a key witness for the prosecution in Serafini’s trial.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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McGee, the driver of the car, is also expected to testify.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
14 July 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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Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle vowed Monday to move forward with the prosecution of the 38-year-old twin Alexander brothers in the same case — even with the likelihood of trial being remote.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 July 2025
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Dayton vowed to come back and audition again in 2025.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
8 July 2025
Verb
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Casada's resignation as speaker came after damning text messages between him and Cothren surfaced, which led to the House Republican Caucus voting no confidence in him and Cothren being pushed out of his job.—
Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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But a groundswell of protest art was answering the call with a new kind of ardent feeling that damned the false piety and hypocrisy of homophobic Christian doctrine.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
Verb
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In June 2024, Donald Trump pledged to release the Epstein case files if elected president for a second term.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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Texas officials have also pledged to analyze the emergency response and make changes as needed.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
15 July 2025
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“Swear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swear. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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