forswear

Example Sentences

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"Putin has repeatedly demanded that the U.S. forswear NATO's enlargement into Ukraine, while Biden has repeatedly asserted that membership of the alliance is Ukraine's choice."

From Salon

Mr. Kuleba also hinted that Ukraine’s giving up nuclear weapons was made to placate America, noting that his country’s forswearing was “in the interest of the U.S. in 1994.”

From Washington Times

The administration has also proposed formally forswearing the placement of offensive ground-based missiles and permanent combat units in Ukraine.

From Washington Post

While muxes have traditionally taken romantic partners, if they so chose — not other muxes but often men who are socially coded as heterosexual — they are expected to forswear marriage and care for their aging parents.

From New York Times

The diabolical genius of the Texas law is that it forswears enforcement of the six-week abortion ban by state officials and instead outsources that job to private bounty hunters.

From Washington Post