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[swair] / swɛər /




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"She was saying, 'Don't let go'. And I didn't let go of my daughter. I swear, I didn't let her go," Bicer said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Maybe I’m loopy, but I’d even swear the entrance to Billy’s screening room has a handmade mural of the Roku City screensaver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Adherents swear by cupping therapy as a way to manage muscle pain and detoxify, but more spas are touting it as the ideal postflight treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

“Aunt Tess, can you bring the coffee canister or not? I need to get to the station and I swear I have no ungodly idea what you’re talking about. Who is Louisa Safechuck?”

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

An NBA player swears it brought him good luck after devouring it the night before a big game.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

The U.S. will pick up another South American ally on Tuesday when Peru swears in center-right Keiko Fujimori as president.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

“Oh, I have a friend who does that,” “Oh, my cousin swears by it,” I began hearing from people as soon as I started looking for interviewees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

Ada who swears to wear black and scratch out dreadful poems.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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 Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying, As the Lord liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

"It is an old proverb and a true, I sware by the roode, It is an il wind that blows no man to good."

From Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

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

"Today we renew the sacred oath that we first swore in their names a quarter of a century ago," Trump said.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

"Today we renew the sacred oath that we first swore in their names a quarter of a century ago. We will never, ever forget. That's why we fight today," Trump said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 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

Jouppi swore he had no idea; bush pilots do not rummage through their passengers’ bags.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

“You take it smoothly now,” said I, “but you were very serious last night, when you swore it was Death.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Ultimately, the reorganization eliminated 133 positions: 70 sworn positions, 62 non-sworn ones and one support staffer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"The full transcript – which I have now obtained – confirms the contents of Jane Doe's sworn statement," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

A university the size of Utah Valley University needs more than 13 sworn staff, the report found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

There could, however, be small steps during the so-called lame-duck session that runs from after the midterms until early January, when a new Congress is sworn in.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 20, 2026

“It is quite nice,” said a man at his side, a man who Jack could have sworn wasn’t there a minute ago, a man whose voice was familiar.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Father and son were grateful, said Matson, swearing him to secrecy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

For this and other reasons, Kevin Warsh, at his swearing in as the new Fed chairman External link last month, singled out Greenspan among his predecessors for praise in delivering prosperity without inflation.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 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

Behind him, whether from delight or fear he could not tell, Ron kept swearing at the top of his voice, and Hermione seemed to be sobbing.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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