promise
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Yusron was torn between helping the girl he was falling in love with, and the promise he had made to his mother.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
And assuming collectors can get their car to an appropriate testing location, there’s no promise it will pass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The upcoming events promise glimpses into a few of Tesla’s most ambitious products.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Despite the prison guard’s promise, Roebuck again declined to read the letter.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I have known this elephant ever since she was born. She is as gentle as a kitten, I promise you.”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
And she was to discover that, despite Abah's remonstrations, and promises to change, he had apparently offended again.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“I’m not sure if there’s any real science behind it,” he acknowledges, but he promises that “it works—literally every time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"I'm going to be responsible and only want to make promises I can keep," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Each promises off the field they will stay friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
And even though Axel is getting used to the mystery of Frank being gone, his heart quivers now the same as it had the day he found the index card listing all those promises.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
The actual candy, plaintiffs Nathan Vidal and Eduardo Granados complained, arrived without the promised eyes and mouth.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
“The Pineapple” promised to be intense, but even hours before the show had begun, it had me startled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Kristersson had promised to bring them into government if he remained at the helm.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
He said he still expects decent profits, but nothing like what the market promised a few years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It almost didn’t matter that the promised sheets had never arrived.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
In other words, Saylor was promising financial security in the form of passive fixed income.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
My advice is simple: Slow down, diversify, independently verify who is managing the money, and be skeptical of anything promising unusually high or consistent returns.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Our overall survival data is very promising and will hopefully persist with additional patients," Cunniff said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
In fact, it wouldn’t be fully understood until much later, when the great-grandson of two men on opposite sides of that matchup emerged as one of college football’s most promising freshmen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
In a time before there were bank checks or credit cards, Washington made this deal with a written note promising to pay eighteen months later.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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