covenant

Example Sentences

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If politicians, news outlets, and civic organizations adopted a “civic covenant for the AI age,” much like current journalistic standards, could we create a healthier public square?

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

In 2020, pandemic-era covenant suspensions created the conditions for distressed companies to scrutinize their loan documents, uncovering the “liability management loopholes” that have defined the years that followed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

In 1636, a small band traveled deep into the Connecticut River Valley, north of Hartford, and established rural towns through a covenant with the Pocumtuck Indians.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

When these sentences are handed down, they form a covenant between the State and the victims, and their family and their friends.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2025

Immigrants who take the oath are pledging loyalty to the covenant.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz