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- verb Present participle of
foreswear .
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Examples
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When his cult members kidnapped mentally challenged people from their nursing homes without family consent and forced them to vote for him, Barack Obama and his satanic cult foreswore any decency and none will be shown to them.
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It would, absolutely, be his defining JFK moment -- the moment that we foreswore our addictions, reclaimed our national soul, seized this day and our entire future, and put ourselves back on the path to greatness.
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Writers from James to Hemingway and beyond foreswore the managing of "atmospherical medium" in order to emphasize fidelity to the "probable" (partly, it must also be said, to bring fiction a perceived respectability that the Romantic dabbling in what Hawthorne also called the "marvellous" did not), and perhaps some of their influence does linger on.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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That's right -- John McCain was the one who foreswore all earmarks.
Chris Weigant: My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1] Chris Weigant 2010
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The signatories foreswore the threat or use of force to enforce their rival claims and promised to engage in cooperative confidence-building measures.
Chinese Diplomacy Off Course Barry Wain 2010
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That's right -- John McCain was the one who foreswore all earmarks.
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The 40-year-old pact is built on a grand bargain: The original five nuclear powers promised to disarm gradually and all others foreswore the bomb.
At nuclear conference, U.S. expects little, gains little 2010
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It would, absolutely, be his defining JFK moment -- the moment that we foreswore our addictions, reclaimed our national soul, seized this day and our entire future, and put ourselves back on the path to greatness.
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The 40-year-old pact is built on a grand bargain: The original five nuclear powers promised to disarm gradually and all others foreswore the bomb.
At nuclear conference, U.S. expects little, gains little 2010
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That's right -- John McCain was the one who foreswore all earmarks.
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