vowed

past tense of vow

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vowed Those fears were particularly triggered after government officials in some states ruled by the BJP vowed to strike people off assistance programs if they'd been deleted off voter rolls. — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026 Trump has long vowed to build a border wall along the roughly 2,000-mile length of the southwest border. — ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026 Moscow ignored that truce from the start and Kyiv vowed to retaliate. — Spencer Kimball,deena Zaidi, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026 France’s justice minister vowed a hard line, while Parliament opened an inquiry into the violence and authorities’ policing strategy, with findings expected by year’s end. — Tom Nouvian, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 The players have vowed not to let the arguments over money impact their play in the new season. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026 Nathan Laine / Bloomberg via Getty French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday vowed legal action against those responsible for the violence. — Max Butterworth, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026 David Jolly is the son of a preacher man, but has vowed never to use his religion as a cudgel against anyone’s beliefs. — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026 After hearing the guilty verdict, Davis vowed to pursue an appeal. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vowed
Verb
  • When the button promised nothing and would simply delete the photos, the 32-billion-parameter model still chose it 75% of the time.
    — Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Those are safe talking points for the midterms, but hardly the MAHA agenda Kennedy promised to deliver in Washington.
    — David Lim, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The body language expert swore that the camp hangouts were positive.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • After her split from Gest, Liza swore she wouldn’t get married again.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 27 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Anthropic made OpenAI's ads push the focus of its first Super Bowl campaign and pledged to keep its competing chatbot, Claude, ad free.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
  • New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, pledged to make child care free for all residents.
    — Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Vowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vowed. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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