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[bih-toh-kuhn] / bɪˈtoʊ kən /


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The SpaceX IPO had some peculiarities that have made the stock especially volatile, and betoken more volatility ahead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

But it doesn’t betoken a path to profitability, in part because the improvement reflected an intensified squeeze on drivers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2019

Banks employ armies of people in back offices, looking for discrepancies that may betoken fraud or honest error.

From Economist ● Mar. 22, 2018

Cityscapes materialize on backdrops in ways that betoken both the dreamlike landscapes of Monet as well as the Tinseltown innovation of film colorization.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2017

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

It betokens a seamless commitment to the depth of engagement championed by her predecessor, Howard Shalwitz.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019

The show is presented in a wider-than-usual widescreen format that gives it a feel we still call "cinematic" and which betokens a certain seriousness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2015

“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” Brown told host Chuck Todd.

From US News ● Mar. 23, 2015

Not just denies: “That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of scientific data,” Brown said Sunday during an appearance on Meet the Press.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2015

Researchers have often wondered whether the Inka collapse betokens a major historical lesson.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Nominated plays such as Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me” and Taylor Mac’s “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” betokened the emergence of singular off-Broadway talents as major Broadway players.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2019

Castro, ageing and ill, retained remnants of his charisma over these last few years but his gaunt frame and wide, non-seeing eyes betokened a world that was past.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2016

“But even that’s a cliché, you know. And then you’ve got ‘the sun peeped through the foliage’ and ‘the ominous black clouds that betokened thunder’—betokened, right?

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 10, 2016

I think Obama really betokened a new day in America.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2016

In the blue haze of the distance a black blur betokened the position of the enemy, and it seemed that at any moment the hoarse challenge of the Boer outpost would give the alarm.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

Set designer Donald Eastman places the action in an airy courtyard of broken concrete slabs — the cracks in the cement betokening the fissures that will symbolically swallow up Floyd.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021

Steven Soderbergh is an executive producer, betokening prestige and meaning that his name is linked with the title in every press report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2017

These days, you might well think, to have your house blurred from Google Street View is the new status symbol, a must-have digital absence betokening your big-ass presence in the world of celebrity.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2014

His instrument for this was color, betokening light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among his Letters are several addressed to the Frankish queen, betokening the unqualified esteem in which she was held by the Roman pontiff.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various




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