oath
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Fernandez, dressed in a cream blazer dress, took the oath of office before a large crowd of flag-waving supporters in the National Stadium of San Jose, Costa Rica's capital.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Last year, in a stunning court filing, Gonzalez Rogers wrote that an Apple executive "outright lied" under oath and referred the matter to the US Attorney for the Northern District of California.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
He took his oath with his hand on a book of poems by the city’s namesake, Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, that belonged to the council’s sole remaining white person, Republican Cathy Warner.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Boyd had testified under oath in a deposition a year ago that he didn’t recall deleting anything on his phone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
But a PIH doctor spoke up, saying that he had signed the Hippocratic Oath to practice medicine ethically, but he didn’t remember signing an oath to do it in a cost-effective way.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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American Government and Civics, List 1
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