vouchsafe
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“And it’s my first time at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival. I suppose, given the circumstances, it’s OK to vouchsafe my secrets or at least one secret about this book.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
And requiring that staff safeguard themselves and others is not “socialism”; it’s a necessity to vouchsafe the public welfare.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
Only regarding the next can we vouchsafe certainty.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 14, 2018
“I never noticed Katharine Graham wearing a Washington Post sweatshirt to vouchsafe her loyalty. I’m just saying.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2017
"To vouchsafe for our good intentions, my brother Ser Perwyn will remain here until she is safely returned to you."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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We secure the latter firmly to the couch; the former vouchsafes to deliver a stream of car chases and oh-no-they-locked-themselves-in-the-walk-in-freezer episodes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Although federal law vouchsafes a right to interpreters, financially strapped hospitals often slide by with a minimum of service.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And even more happy than proud, since the most splendid gift which the Divine Being from time to time vouchsafes to poor humanity is that of genius.
From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Elliott Graeme
If the inflowing of good which Jehovah vouchsafes is infinite, only less infinite is the outflowing of that which thou callest evil and wickedness.
From Shapes that Haunt the Dusk by William Dean Howells
An imprecation is the only reply the other vouchsafes, and again they exchange shots.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Being in Iran hasn’t vouchsafed them much happiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
God has vouchsafed to me a priceless gift in the weapon of ahimsa.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
But is he listing what he actually saw, or what was vouchsafed to him in the euphoric act of seeing?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
Not that Oliver seemed dispirited – he and Bill had been swimming in Hampstead Pond that morning: “We like to listen to music on headphones while we swim,” Oliver vouchsafed.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2015
The gods had not even vouchsafed him that much.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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A pivotal battleground would be in the Central Valley, where spraying of the herbicide is common l and agricultural groups defend it as an essential tool in controlling weeds and vouchsafing the food supply.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2017
Instead, Mr. Pence has thrown himself into the work with relish, constantly vouchsafing the character of “this good man” Donald Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2016
I thank Mr. Nichols for vouchsafing us that glimpse of a watershed opening night in American drama, an uncommon gift from one theater lover to many others.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2012
Lahiri speaks quietly and deliberately, vouchsafing only the occasional smile.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In all this fret and fuss Tom Firr sits like a philosopher, surrounded by the questioning pack; vouchsafing an occasional remark to a farmer or a patron of the hunt.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Beatrice Violet Graham Greville
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