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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
foreswear .
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Examples
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I am sure you will find practitioners who have foresworn health insurance for this reason.
Wonk Room » AHIP Attempts to Portray Doctors as Villains 2009
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She is a judge who has foresworn judicial activism in her confirmation hearings, but who has a long record of it prior to 2009.
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Of course, after all that, you would think outwardly progressive organizations would have learned their lesson and foresworn the whole lions-and-lambs, utopianism-as-pragmatism approach to climate policy, right?
Keith Harrington: Post-Partisan Bunk: Climate Solutions From Climate Deniers? Keith Harrington 2010
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AstraZeneca has foresworn large acquisitions and diversification, and is relying on new drug development.
AstraZeneca Still Falling Behind Rivals Hester Plumridge 2011
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This approach to literary study, which is probably shared by a large number of literature professors, has implicitly concluded that literature is not really capable even of helping students "learn something about themselves or the world along the way" and has essentially foresworn the study of literature altogether for the kinds of objects Dr. Crazy mentions.
Literary Study 2009
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Of course, after all that, you would think outwardly progressive organizations would have learned their lesson and foresworn the whole lions-and-lambs, utopianism-as-pragmatism approach to climate policy, right?
Keith Harrington: Post-Partisan Bunk: Climate Solutions From Climate Deniers? Keith Harrington 2010
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Of course, after all that, you would think outwardly progressive organizations would have learned their lesson and foresworn the whole lions-and-lambs, utopianism-as-pragmatism approach to climate policy, right?
Keith Harrington: Post-Partisan Bunk: Climate Solutions From Climate Deniers? Keith Harrington 2010
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For decades, it has foresworn discretionary monetary policy altogether, relying on a simple dollar-linked currency board.
Moving Toward 21st Century Capitalism Nathan Lewis 2011
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Every year on his birthday, Tiger and his mother would make gifts of rice, sugar and salt to monks who had foresworn a material life.
Nikolas Kozloff: Brit Hume's Buddhist Smack Down on Tiger Woods 2010
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A misplaced cut or a missing suture are accidents, but one billing specialist per hospital bed is not and is, or should be, foresworn.
Stephen Herrington: 'Cadillac Tax' Debate Shows We Don't Understand the Problem 2010
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