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betoken

[bih-toh-kuhn] / bɪˈtoʊ kən /


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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

These journeys are all described with much brightness, reality, and graphic word-painting, and betoken so thorough a knowledge of the scenes and people that they form most pleasant and instructive reading.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.




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