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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

While I have yet to forswear friendship and its succor entirely — maybe one day!

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 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

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

Dr. Volkow generally forswears any interest in politics per se, but midway through a long day of meetings last month she sighed and acknowledged, “science and politics are intertwined.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011

Not until he forswears love will he stretch out his hand to the gold, and found the Plutonic empire for himself.

From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Bernard Shaw

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

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

Have they forsworn the advancing of hypotheses by means of self-serving anecdotes?

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 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

So I can understand how someone who doesn’t would find it really difficult to bear—but I also know that forswearing garlic entirely would mean a real reduction in joy and pleasure for someone who does.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2020

Hurd, who is not forswearing public life, insists, “I’m just getting started.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019

The same oath shall be required of the alguazil-mayor who shall present them, and likewise from the substitute alguazils—under the penalty prescribed for forswearing, and of dismissal from office.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair