betoken
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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
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
In electoral politics, likewise: a successful re-election that seemed to betoken a sustained realignment for the Democrats.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2017
"They don't start anything, and probably didn't determine much — but betoken a widespread disgust in the air."
From US News ● Sep. 30, 2016
They betoken a development of social wants and refinements, and the force of influences received from surrounding countries.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
The Wiseman reference betokens a certain seriousness on the part of the creators, an awareness that people might be watching who know a thing or two about the subject.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
“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
“The man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” Brown said.
From MSNBC ● Mar. 22, 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
Her companion was a shrivelled little woman, whose gums were toothless and whose cheeks bore the pallor of enforced seclusion, but whose alert expression betokened generations of watchful patience.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
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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And I then noticed the countenance of the younger brother, who was fairer and shorter by a head than Basil, and had the most beautiful eyes imaginable, and a high forehead betokening thoughtfulness.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
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