betray
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Appeared in the February 3, 2026, print edition as 'Don’t Betray Syria’s Heroic Kurds'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
Ruta Sepetys’s latest historical Y.A. novel, “I Must Betray You,” follows the life of a teenager who is blackmailed to become an informer for a repressive Communist regime.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2017
Q. Betray dad by telling mom about his cancer?:
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2016
“You’re suggesting we turn in our own mother? Betray our own mother when we have proof of nothing?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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