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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and others have been pledging a World Bank climate overhaul.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023

Tech CEOs such as Google’s Sundar Pichai and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have been pledging to boost productivity, calling out low performers and asking their workers to do more.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2022

Congressional Democrats, notably Mr. Schumer, have been pledging for more than a year to consider a bill to update the nation’s pot laws.

From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2022

For at least three decades, directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been pledging to get back to following the science.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022

She might have been pledging fealty to some adored intimate.

From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice