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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

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

At the time, these episodes loomed large and seemed to betoken a troubled presidency.

From US News ● Oct. 14, 2016

Valleys betoken the humble, and hills the proud.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

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

Success, and the big paydays it betokens, paradoxically breeds conservatism; failure, which good art courts, is not an option.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 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

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

And yet, even that everydayness betokened a complex reality.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2020

“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

Only a sullen, rolling motion and the faint tremor of the twin propeller shafting betokened the fact that the vessel was still under way.

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

His instrument for this was color, betokening light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before the letters came, last evening, we heard continual cries of "Pende lepta," betokening the issue of an extra.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe




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