| Solemn pledges |
Commuter |
09 Jun 2026 |
| They may be minced |
Wall Street Journal |
21 May 2026 |
| Formal pledges |
Newsday |
14 May 2026 |
| Sworn statements |
Universal |
07 May 2026 |
| Formal pledges |
Universal |
27 Apr 2026 |
| Promising words |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Apr 2026 |
| Vows you may stand for |
New York Times |
11 Apr 2026 |
| Sworn promises |
|
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| Court witnesses' vows |
Universal |
02 Feb 2026 |
| Has to change promises (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
30 Jan 2026 |
| Promissory procedures |
Newsday |
24 Jan 2026 |
| They may turn the air blue |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
06 Jan 2026 |
| Sworn statements |
USA Today |
28 Dec 2025 |
| Sworn promises |
|
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| Has to change promises (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
10 Dec 2025 |
| Vows |
Commuter |
04 Nov 2025 |
| Solemn pledges |
USA Today |
31 Oct 2025 |
| Solemn vows |
Newsday |
29 Oct 2025 |
| Some loathsome swear words |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
14 Oct 2025 |
| Solemn promises |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Oct 2025 |
| Solemn declarations |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
05 Oct 2025 |
| Solemn promises |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Sep 2025 |
| Solemn promises |
Commuter |
05 Sep 2025 |
| Trial rituals |
Newsday |
14 Aug 2025 |
| Has to make professions of loyalty |
|
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| Solemn vows of China |
|
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| Solemn promises |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Jul 2025 |
| Solemn vows |
LA Times Mini |
06 Jul 2025 |
| Solemn vows |
Commuter |
30 Jun 2025 |
| Recitations made by students before entering Oxford's Bodleian Library |
LA Times Daily |
27 Jun 2025 |
| Solemn promises |
|
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| A host garbled solemn undertakings (5) |
|
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| Expletives |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
04 Jun 2025 |
| Official promises |
|
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| Promises hot porridge outside (5) |
|
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| Court proceedings |
Newsday |
01 May 2025 |
| Vows |
USA Today |
29 Mar 2025 |
| Has to change promises (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
29 Mar 2025 |
| Has to change bad language (5) |
|
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| Recitations at inaugurations |
|
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| Swear words, as hot as can be (5) |
|
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| Has to change promises (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
01 Mar 2025 |
| Solemn recitations |
LA Times Daily |
12 Feb 2025 |
| Solemn promises |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
01 Feb 2025 |
| Presidential administrations? |
|
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| Swearing-in ceremonies |
Newsday |
08 Dec 2024 |
| Sacred vows |
Premier Sunday |
10 Nov 2024 |
| Swear words |
LA Times Daily |
07 Nov 2024 |
| Has to remake promises |
|
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| Swear words often broadcast uncensored? |
|
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| Vows of allegiance |
|
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| Promises that are a host's madness (5) |
|
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| Some are solemn |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Oct 2024 |
| Promising words |
LA Times Daily |
02 Oct 2024 |
| Curses as horses start in on oats (5) |
|
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| Solemn promises |
LA Times Mini |
12 Sep 2024 |
| Solemn vows |
Commuter |
11 Sep 2024 |
| Has to change promises (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
09 Sep 2024 |
| Obliging words |
Newsday |
07 Sep 2024 |
| Solemn promises |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
05 Sep 2024 |
| Has to provide promises (5) |
|
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| Swearers' promises |
|
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| Initially, oddball adhered to his solemn vows |
|
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| Has to renew promises (5) |
|
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| Solemn promises |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Jul 2024 |
| Has to break the promises (5) |
|
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| Promising or profane statements |
|
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| Promises to get cereal containing hazelnuts initially |
|
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| Stand rituals |
LA Times Daily |
15 Jun 2024 |
| Has to broadcast promises (5) |
The Guardian Quick Cryptic |
15 Jun 2024 |
| Swear it's hard to get into some cereals (5) |
|
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| Solemn vows |
|
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| Court pledges |
Universal |
06 Jun 2024 |
| Curses cereals, hard inside |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Jun 2024 |
| Curses when a shot goes astray (5) |
|
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| Official administrations |
New York Times |
18 May 2024 |
| One four-letter word and a second? (5) |
|
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| Promises royalty has regularly ignored (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
02 May 2024 |
| Doctor has to make promises (5) |
|
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| Solemn vows |
Commuter |
18 Apr 2024 |
| They may be taken as indications of loyalty (5) |
|
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| A host broke solemn promises (5) |
|
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| A host, badly treated, curses (5) |
|
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| Sacred promises sworn by paladins |
USA Today |
03 Mar 2024 |
| Has to change promises (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
12 Feb 2024 |
| Sworn statements |
USA Today |
12 Feb 2024 |
| Vows, pledges |
|
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| So a hat is worn when such promises are made? (5) |
|
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| 'For ___ are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes' (Henry V) (5) |
|
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| Solemn vows |
Commuter |
19 Jan 2024 |
| Promises second child will get stuck into cereal |
|
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| Has to change promises (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Vows could be as hot! (5) |
|
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| Curses a sot tottering outside hotel (5) |
|
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| Sacred vows |
USA Today |
23 Nov 2023 |
| Vows |
Universal |
11 Oct 2023 |
| Swearing-in ceremonies |
Newsday |
03 Oct 2023 |
| Solemn promises |
Eugene Sheffer |
31 Jul 2023 |
| Solemn promises |
USA Today |
28 Jul 2023 |
| Solemn vows |
Newsday |
23 Jul 2023 |
| Formal vows |
Newsday |
07 Feb 2023 |
| Solemn pledges |
|
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| They may be mild or minced |
New York Times |
02 Dec 2022 |
| Courthouse pledges |
|
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| Courtroom pledges |
Newsday |
07 Nov 2022 |
| Solemn declarations |
Universal |
06 Nov 2022 |
| Often appeals to heavenly spirit, initially |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Oct 2022 |
| Solemn promises |
USA Today |
14 Oct 2022 |
| Promises some cereal getting hot inside |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Oct 2022 |
| Sworn statements |
New York Times |
21 Sep 2022 |
| "?%@#" and others |
Universal |
13 Sep 2022 |
| Swear words, in two ways |
New York Times |
03 Sep 2022 |
| Formal pledges |
Newsday |
08 Aug 2022 |
| They’re sworn |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2022 |
| They're sworn |
New York Times |
22 Jun 2022 |
| Solemn promises |
The Times Concise |
20 Jun 2022 |
| Sworn promises |
|
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| Formal promises |
Universal |
23 May 2022 |
| Vows of loyalty he's regularly disregarded |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Apr 2022 |
| Sworn vows |
USA Today |
21 Apr 2022 |
| Courtroom pledges |
Newsday |
18 Apr 2022 |
| Court recitations |
LA Times Daily |
15 Apr 2022 |
| Court recitations |
|
|
| Promising statements |
Newsday |
02 Apr 2022 |
| “Zounds!” and “By Jove!” |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Mar 2022 |
| Solemn vows |
The Times Concise |
09 Mar 2022 |
| Solemn promises |
Eugene Sheffer |
23 Feb 2022 |
| Inaugural statements |
|
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| Solemn vows |
USA Today |
18 Dec 2021 |
| Serious promises |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Oct 2021 |
| They're taken on stands |
LA Times Daily |
29 Sep 2021 |
| They're taken on stands |
|
|
| Bleepable utterances |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Aug 2021 |
| Curses musketeer over being posted to front |
|
|
| Solemn vows |
Premier Sunday |
22 Aug 2021 |
| Sworn statements |
Universal |
08 Aug 2021 |
| Obscenities, if said by some yobs they'd be of themselves! |
|
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| "Darn!" and "Dagnabbit!" are mild ones |
LA Times Daily |
26 Apr 2021 |
| 'Darn!' and 'Dagnabbit!' are mild ones |
|
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| Trial declarations |
Newsday |
08 Apr 2021 |
| Requirements for witnesses |
New York Times |
21 Mar 2021 |
| Solemn promises |
Eugene Sheffer |
19 Mar 2021 |
| '%$#*' and '@#&!' |
New York Times |
11 Mar 2021 |
| Inaugural recitations |
|
|
| Vows |
USA Today |
11 Jan 2021 |
| Vows |
Universal |
09 Jan 2021 |
| Swear words? |
New York Times |
13 Dec 2020 |
| Solemn pledges |
|
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| Courtroom recitals |
|
|
| Presidents take them |
|
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| Presidents take them |
LA Times Daily |
14 Aug 2020 |
| Declarations at inaugurations |
New York Times |
20 Jul 2020 |
| Swearing's a little loathsome |
|
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| Swearing's a little loathsome |
|
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| Solemn pledges (anagram of "shoat") |
|
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| Solemn vows |
The Times Concise |
05 Mar 2020 |
| Statements in court |
Newsday |
16 Feb 2020 |
| Inauguration rituals |
USA Today |
12 Dec 2019 |
| Curses or solemn promises |
|
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| Vows |
New York Times |
06 Nov 2019 |
| Vows |
|
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| Pledges in courts |
|
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| Has to break promises |
|
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| Expletives coming from yob, aitches dropped regularly |
The Telegraph Toughie |
27 Aug 2019 |
| Judges may administer them |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Aug 2019 |
| Pledges |
Universal |
16 Jul 2019 |
| Nothing put forward in musketeer's pledges |
|
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| Serious promises |
Newsday |
02 May 2019 |
| Solemn pledges |
Newsday |
31 Mar 2019 |
| Pledges to serve cereal in hospital? On the contrary! |
|
|
| They're taken at trials |
USA Today |
04 Mar 2019 |
| Courtroom pledges |
Newsday |
25 Feb 2019 |
| Witness stand statements |
USA Today |
15 Feb 2019 |
| Four-letter words |
Universal |
14 Jan 2019 |
| Solemn pledges |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Jan 2019 |
| They're taken at trials |
|
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| Four-letter words |
|
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| Solemn pledges |
|
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| Pledges |
|
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| Judges may administer them |
|
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| Witness stand statements |
|
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| Swear words |
|
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| Swear words |
LA Times Daily |
13 Dec 2018 |
| Formal administrations |
Newsday |
01 Dec 2018 |
| Witnesses' recitations |
|
|
| Solemn promises |
The Times Concise |
16 Oct 2018 |
| Earnest promises |
Newsday |
24 Aug 2018 |
| Courthouse pledges |
|
|
| Loyalty has frequently produced solemn promises |
|
|
| Formal pledges |
Newsday |
16 May 2018 |
| Office administrations? |
Universal |
20 Apr 2018 |
| Swearing-in rituals |
LA Times Daily |
07 Mar 2018 |
| Swearing-in rituals |
|
|
| Cusswords |
USA Today |
01 Mar 2018 |
| Court declarations |
LA Times Daily |
25 Feb 2018 |
| Court declarations |
|
|
| Things taken by government officials |
New York Times |
04 Feb 2018 |
| Inauguration Day vows |
New York Times |
29 Jan 2018 |
| Office administrations |
LA Times Daily |
05 Jan 2018 |
| Office administrations |
|
|
| Inauguration Day vows |
|
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| Court declarations |
|
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| Office administrations |
|
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| Swear words |
|
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| Things taken by government officials |
|
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| Cusswords |
|
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| Office administrations? |
|
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| Vows |
|
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| Courtroom promises |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2017 |
| Has to change promises |
The Sun Two Speed |
21 Dec 2017 |
| Solemn promises |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Dec 2017 |
| Solemn vows |
|
|
| Oaths |
Universal |
21 Sep 2017 |
| Swear words by Boy Scouts? |
Universal |
26 Jun 2017 |
| Mild ones are not obscene |
Universal |
01 May 2017 |
| Statements to honor |
|
|
| Some sentences pronounced in court |
|
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| Oaths |
|
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| Some sentences pronounced in court |
|
|
| Mild ones are not obscene |
|
|
| Swear words by Boy Scouts? |
|
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| Has to set out professions of loyalty |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Dec 2016 |
| Jurors take them |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Nov 2016 |
| They're often taken orally |
LA Times Daily |
06 Nov 2016 |
| Leader to be deposed absolutely Home Secretary promises |
|
|
| Promises to have cereal at high school |
|
|
| Scouts take them |
Universal |
18 Jul 2016 |
| Solemn promises |
Universal |
12 Jul 2016 |
| Promises crop around top of hill |
|
|
| Jurors take them |
USA Today |
17 May 2016 |
| Inauguration recitations |
Newsday |
23 Mar 2016 |
| Pledges to chop up hosta |
|
|
| They might be minced or solemn |
|
|
| Swear words |
Newsday |
11 Feb 2016 |
| They're often taken orally |
|
|
| Solemn promises |
|
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| Scouts take them |
|
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| Jurors take them |
|
|
| Sworn statements |
Newsday |
26 Nov 2015 |
| Censor's targets |
LA Times Daily |
04 Oct 2015 |
| "Drat!" and "Shazam!" |
USA Today |
19 Sep 2015 |
| Courtroom procedures |
LA Times Daily |
19 Sep 2015 |
| Promises |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Aug 2015 |
| Promises husband to tuck into cereal |
|
|
| Inaugural rituals |
Newsday |
26 Jul 2015 |
| Court rituals |
Newsday |
02 Jul 2015 |
| Swearwords |
Premier Sunday |
26 Apr 2015 |
| Salty language |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Feb 2015 |
| Recitals showing promise |
LA Times Daily |
18 Feb 2015 |
| Sworn statements |
Universal |
07 Jan 2015 |
| Sworn statements |
|
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| Swearwords |
|
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| Salty language |
|
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| Sworn statements |
|
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| Sworn statements |
|
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| Inaugural rituals |
|
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| Court rituals |
|
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| Recitals showing promise |
|
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| Courtroom procedures |
|
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| Censor's targets |
|
|
| "Drat!" and "Shazam!" |
|
|
| Curses pipes around start of Hogmanay |
|
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| Court statements |
|
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| Solemn appeals |
|
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| Statements of commitment |
|
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| Promising words |
|
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| Inaugural rituals |
|
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| Profanities |
|
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| Formal promises |
|
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| Solemn words |
|
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| Vows |
|
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| Solemn promises |
|
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| Formal promises |
|
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| Occasions to raise one's hand |
|
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| Swearing-in ceremonies |
|
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| Formal promises |
|
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| Breakable words |
|
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| Courtroom statements |
|
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| Solemn promises |
|
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| Formal promises |
|
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| Swearing |
|
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| Courtroom statements |
|
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| Inaugural recitations |
|
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| Salty language |
|
|
| They're taken in courtrooms |
|
|
| They're taken on the stand |
|
|
| Promises of allegiance |
|
|
| Four-letter words, sometimes |
|
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| Swear words? |
|
|
| Promising words |
|
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| Heartfelt pledges |
|
|
| Offices may require them |
|
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| Vows or curses |
|
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| Curses |
|
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| Breakable words |
|
|
| Presidential affirmations |
|
|
| "Gosh darn!" and worse |
|
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| Solemn pledges |
|
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| Solemn vows |
|
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| Promises crop around height (5) |
|
|
| "#@*!" and such |
|
|
| Courtroom rituals |
|
|
| Curse words |
|
|
| Promising words? |
|
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| Solemn vows |
|
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| Swear words |
|
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| They may be taken with a raised hand |
|
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| Swear words |
|
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| Formal promises |
|
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| Sworn promises |
|
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| Witness stand statements |
|
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| They may be taken with a raised hand |
|
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| Solemn promises |
|
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| Sworn promises |
|
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| Bleeped words |
|
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| Sworn statements |
|
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| Unprintable outbursts |
|
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| Court rituals |
|
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| Boy Scouts take them |
|
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| Solemn vows |
|
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| Solemn promises |
|
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| People raise their hands for them |
|
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| Scouts take them |
|
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| Allegiance affirmations |
|
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| Solemn pledges |
|
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| Wedding promises |
|
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| Promising words |
|
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| I do's |
|
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| Solemn pledges |
|
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| Curses |
|
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| "Drat!" and "Egad!" |
|
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| Swearwords |
|
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| Pledges |
|
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| Promising words |
|
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| Bleeped words |
|
|
| Scouts take them |
|
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| "Rats!" et al. |
|
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| They're taken on stands |
|
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| They may be made with Bibles |
|
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| They're taken on stands |
|
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| Courtroom rituals |
|
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| Solemn appeals |
|
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| Recitals showing promise |
|
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| "Nerts!" and others |
|
|
| Jurors take them |
|
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| Don't lie under them |
|
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| Solemn pledges |
|
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| Cusswords |
|
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| Court rituals |
|
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| Pledges |
|
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| Promises |
|
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| Words of honor |
|
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| They're taken in court |
|
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| Words of honor |
|
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| Solemn words |
|
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| They make people raise their hands |
|
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| Some are solemn |
|
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| Solemn statements |
|
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| "Egads!" and "Gadzooks!" |
|
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| They're given in court |
|
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| Wedding promises |
|
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| Blue language |
|
|
| They're taken in court |
|
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| Statements taken by officials |
|
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| Solemn pledges |
|
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| Allegiance affirmations |
|
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| Blue language |
|
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| Curses |
|
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| They're taken in court |
|
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| Formal promises |
|
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| Vows |
|
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| Curses |
|
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| "Rats!" and others |
|
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| Cuss words |
|
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| Solemn promises |
|
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| Vows |
|
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| Swear words |
|
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| Hippocratic and Boy Scout |
|
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| Swear words |
|
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| They may be bleeped |
|
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| Presidential affirmations |
|
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| Courtroom statements |
|
|
| They may be bleeped |
|
|
| Court proceedings |
|
|
| Blue utterances |
|
|
| Blasphemous terms |
|
|
| They may be made with Bibles |
|
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| Expletives |
|
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| Promises |
|
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| Promises |
|
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| Trial rituals |
|
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| Swear words |
|
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| Pledges |
|
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| Affirmations |
|
|
| Old hat's spoiled. Damn and blast! |
|
|
| Some are solemn |
|
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| Solemn promises |
|
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| "Drat!" and "Shazam!" |
|
|
| Blue language |
|
|
| Court statements |
|
|
| Scouts take them |
|
|
| Solemn sayings |
|
|
| "Drat!" and "Egad!" |
|
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| Solemn attestations |
|
|
| Witnesses' requirements |
|
|
| Sworn statements |
|
|
| Swearing to tell the truth, and others |
|
|
| Promises |
|
|
| "Gosh darn!" and worse |
|
|
| Imprecations |
|
|
| Ritualistic declarations |
|
|
| Solemn pledges |
|
|
| Juratory statements |
|
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| Pledges |
|
|
| Egad and drat |
|
|
| Swearwords |
|
|
| Formal affirmations |
|
|
| Imprecatory remarks |
|
|
| Things taken on Bibles |
|
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| Formal promises |
|
|
| "Full of strange ___ . . . " |
|
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| "False as dicers' ___." |
|
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| Solemn declarations. |
|
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| Loyalty ___. |
|
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| Solemn affirmations. |
|
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| Words of honor. |
|
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| Courtroom activities. |
|
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| Pledges. |
|
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| Solemn words. |
|
|
| The Hippocratic and others. |
|
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| Solemn sayings |
|
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| Courtroom proceedings. |
|
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| Court procedures. |
|
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