forswear

U.S. diplomats asked both to forswear making nuclear fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

He said this would be the "challenge for this year" as he urged leaders to "forswear wedge issues" that render their opponents their enemies.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023

I leaned on the hot drink my first morning after I resolved to abide by the Breitenbush credo and forswear my daily cuppa.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

To be clear, no one is demanding that members of Congress forswear holding all stock.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2022

Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

The majority forswears any interest in going after other rights similarly grounded in the right to privacy.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

It is the rare writer who forswears this paradigm through pessimism or scruple.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2020

Wotan builds Valhalla to compensate for a loveless marriage; Alberich forswears love to forge the Ring.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016

That is the voice of today's latest edge, which forswears normality and happiness for the inevitable doom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2015

I nodded assent and he continued— "Is she a saint, that she thus forswears the pomps and vanities of this world?"

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

These Asian nations forswore nukes because they trusted in American power.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

The two Koreas first forswore nuclear weapons in a solemn agreement in 1992, shortly after America removed tactical nuclear weapons from its bases in South Korea.

From Economist ● Jun. 7, 2018

The smell is so bad that it contaminates across space and time, sullying even its closest relative, Parenthood, another show about yuppies that forswore anything but uplifting resolution and ultimately turned all tribulations into celebrations.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2016

Embittered, Burdock Muldoon forswore any further attempts to integrate non-wizard members of the magical community into the Wizards’ Council.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

They have forsworn normalcy, these holy fools in decaying mansions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

“Director” may be the wrong word, though; the onscreen credit is simply “by” Harmony Korine, who has apparently forsworn any impulse to control his material.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2024

Staying off coffee — which Warren has forsworn — is tough amid the marathon days, but the rules allowing only water and milk on the Senate floor help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

But as Justice Sonia Sotomayor reminded Clement, “The city has forsworn any future prosecution for past violations.”

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2019

"If you do not return, the whole realm will know you forsworn."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It’s as if by forswearing the evanescent experience of real-life performing, Glenn Gould gave himself eternal fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

For Foley, who months earlier had pleaded with Attorney General William Barr to pursue justice by forswearing the death penalty, the fact the case was proceeding at all felt miraculous.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2020

Let’s instead assume that this really does bother her and at the same time that forswearing garlic forever would be a serious burden for you.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2020

All his life he was given to intense periods of noodling, forswearing meals, sleeping at his desk, testing and retesting his ideas, and shepherding his favored brainchildren to manufacture, marketability and profit.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2019

Milton’s Satan, then, is the ruined Archangel deciding his future function, and forswearing all interest in other regions of the universe, in order that he may more thoroughly possess and impregnate this.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson