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So why do so many people swear this summer has felt so unusually oppressive?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Walker added Cricket was well-known for "keeping his act clean" in a time where some of the clubs would not have allowed any type of crude language or swear words.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

To start things off, here are three personal-finance principles that I’ve come to swear by through my own wins and losses.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

"I swear ... that I will faithfully carry out the duties of president of the republic," Peru's ninth president in a decade stated before Congress.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

We hang out late watching some movie from when Mom and Dad were younger that they swear is “so great,” but was a little slow, to be honest.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Vincent swears dogs can be trained to do anything, like open the refrigerator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

He swears to USA Today that he tries to “make wise decisions and moral decisions.”

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

Watch the actress discuss returning to “The Devil Wears Prada” nearly 20 years later, working with her husband John Krasinski on “A Quiet Place” and the parenting hot take she swears by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Strickland, who is Hilton’s campaign chair, swears that he and his former colleagues didn’t plan to take their crusade statewide, but “when you do a great job, other opportunities present themselves.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Trust me, man, pretty much every dude in here swears they’re some kind of comedian.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

And they waxed wroth against the High Priestess and said, Didst thou not sware, even unto seven times, that thou wouldst not call a snap election?

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2017

And again by another, “The Lord thy God is a merciful God; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them.”

From True Christianity by Johann Arndt

That i wont sware enny, unless i am put under oath.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw

Is love, that thou sware to me aye and so often, To live too feeble or—how?—doth it soften And weaken away and—to die?—why die?—

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

North Korea demolished the South's liaison office in its territory and later swore off all communication with them.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

In that trial, Brambles swore he was the victim of a “tragic mis-identification” while hinting at a conspiracy against him because of a stormy 23-year career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Whenever the tone of the film tilts toward the overly reverent, Waters comes in with a bit of wisecracking, truthtelling remembrance: Oliver chain-smoked, swore, was stubborn, walked in the forest “like a crazy person.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

But in doing so, the court swore up and down that its Louisiana decision did not overrule Allen v.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Ophie swore she could hear her daddy’s voice, even though he was still back at the house, waiting on whatever had put such a fright in him.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Stopping work at this point “will be a disaster,” Sauer wrote, quoting a sworn statement from the director for White House management and administration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

I haven’t sworn off delivery, nor do I particularly want to.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

“I was taken to Ventura County Medical Center because of the severity of the wound and blood loss,” Ziegenfus’ sworn statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

On Saturday, just a day after the was sworn into office, two explosive devices went off.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

I could have sworn that she lowered her head to make it easy to put the halter on.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Kito showed Becerra a picture of the then-congressman swearing him in as a neighborhood council president more than a decade ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

At his swearing in he promised to usher in a "reform-oriented" era, with plans to change how much the Fed communicates and to reduce the size of its balance sheet.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

He whined that the singers who pulled out of the state fair are “Third Rate” and promised he would simply headline the event, swearing he is greater than Elvis, even “without a guitar.”

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Donald Trump urged the incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to be "totally independent" at a White House swearing in ceremony on Friday.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Often silent, sometimes swearing, always pointedly looking at me, neck feathers ruffled, wings half out, beak extended.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen