betray
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Schwartz only won Senate confirmation on Wednesday, after a hearing in which she pledged to “never betray the science” on which CDC policies are based.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
You can't go against your values, nor can you betray others.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
"It will never betray you, will always be loyal to you, and will love you unconditionally."
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“I believe that America carries the hope of humanity. To betray that would be to betray both hope and humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“He told me out of trust. I would never betray it. I believe that the world could be different. I believe that our destinies aren’t chains around our necks, but wings that give us flight.”
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
The Wrap said "at times it betrays its amateur beginnings with clunky plotting."
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Yet his message today to the world betrays Iran’s harsh reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
The tension running through the campaign betrays a regime unsettled by the prospect of life after an octogenarian president.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
“It is reckless and betrays both common sense and public trust.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
While others burned brightly for a short time before being betrayed by their bodies, he was a picture of consistency through the early days of his career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Again, it was the slider that betrayed Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
These spaces are communities, and Mitrovich had betrayed an unspoken agreement to keep them that way.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
I can see why your friend felt betrayed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
I should have liked him to have betrayed emotion, or to have said, “It does you credit, Pip,” or something of that sort.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
He said Simms did the right thing by not betraying his friendship with Shanahan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mr. Sheffi’s book describes a great American institution avidly betraying its principles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Over a century ago, when the Supreme Court helped usher in Jim Crow, Justice John Marshall Harlan took his colleagues to task for betraying the promise of Reconstruction.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
They told her she would die lonely, called her selfish, and accused her of "betraying her country".
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
They were betraying her by wobbling, so she forced fortitude to her legs, tightening her muscles.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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