betoken
Example Sentences
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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
This “Cyrano” centers the freedom that new forms of drama betoken, and all the ways that the writing of the past can feed them — from Rostand to Emily Dickinson.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022
Banks employ armies of people in back offices, looking for discrepancies that may betoken fraud or honest error.
From Economist • Mar. 22, 2018
In electoral politics, likewise: a successful re-election that seemed to betoken a sustained realignment for the Democrats.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2017
It is perhaps this knowledge of their actual weakness which subdues them since they cannot afford to openly avow feelings which are inimical to us and which would betoken their own hostility.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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