betoken
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And though releasing a series in the last week of the year doesn’t exactly betoken confidence, I can predict with some confidence that there might be one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
Foresignify, fōr-sig′ni-fī, v.t. to betoken beforehand: to foreshow: to typify.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The setting betokens the monumental standoff expertly executed by Boston and Wallace, who stand as twin pillars of this transitional American age.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016
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
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The statistics betokened a return to artistic health for the 41 theaters of Broadway, forced to shut down for 15 months starting in March 2020 because of the pandemic.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022
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
The A.B. regarded his rescuer with a look that betokened pained disapproval.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
Secretary of Agriculture, good crop weather is bad news, betokening bumper surpluses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Slowly the dawn broke, a crimson glow betwixt the dark, scudding masses of clouds betokening a continuance of the hard blow, and plenty of it.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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