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promise

Definition for promise

noun as in hope, possibility

Strongest matches

ability, potential, talent

Weak match

good omen

verb as in bring hope, possibility

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Example Sentences

Sweet reminded me that when we talked in January, she had said the 2020s would be the “decade of delivery on the promise of technology.”

From Fortune

The next thing to understand is that good investors know the promise you are making to them is just that—a promise.

From Fortune

They were fooled with promises like the Democrats make today.

From Ozy

That was the promise of FitrWoman, an app I downloaded on my phone last fall.

To help deliver on her promise, Atkins carried SB 1120 herself – one of the few measures she signed her name to this year.

With those words was a promise to launch the first group of passengers in the coming year.

Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.

He said the brokers promise that the Italian navy will pick them up, which he says has actually driven the prices down.

They opened for acts like Elliott Smith, Sloan, and Promise Ring.

Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.

He is dead; but his three sons have the estate yet, and I think they would keep their father's promise to the Indians.

Alford speaks of this as remarkable; but vision is the especial promise of Wisdom, therefore of Solomon, son of David.

From mere regrets he was passing now, through dismay, into utter repentance of his promise.

This information was balm to Louis, as it seemed to promise a peaceful termination to so threatening an affair.

Were they to be driven out,—driven out this very day, when the Virgin had only just now seemed to promise her help and protection?

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On this page you'll find 234 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to promise, such as: agreement, assurance, commitment, guarantee, obligation, and pact.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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