Crossword-Solution: PROMISES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROMISES | anagram | IMPOSERS, SEMIPROS |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PROMISES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "I do" and "I will" | 1 answer |
| Double this for a 1968 B'way hit | 1 answer |
| Swears one will | 1 answer |
| Gives one's word | 4 answers |
| Vows | 5 answers |
| coaxing | 8 answers |
| wheedling | 8 answers |
| Sweet talk | 20 answers |
| Part 2 of today's quote | 20 answers |
| Sweet-talk | 22 answers |
| humouring | 24 answers |
| Palaver | 36 answers |
| Flattery | 72 answers |
| BROKEN ___ | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROMISES (5)
But the Farmer interrupted them, saying: “I have already two oxen, who, without making any promises, do all these things.
The reopening of the local oil refinery, once a major source of employment and foreign exchange earnings, promises to give the economy an additional boost.
And if she were to marry again I expect I should bide with her.” “She promises that you shall—quite natural,” said the strategic lover, throbbing throughout him at the presumption which Liddy’s words appeared to warrant—that his darling had thought of re-marriage.
Upon hearing about a rigged demo or yet another round of fantasy-based marketing promises hackers often feel similarly disheartened.
Given the chaos concerning standards, which promises to linger for the foreseeable future, BATTIN urged adoption of the following general principles: * Strive to understand the changing information requirements of scholarly disciplines as more and more technology is integrated into the process of research and scholarly communication in order to meet future scholarly needs, not to build for the past.
Quotes with PROMISES (3)
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said." Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagini…
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1979–2023).