betray

But stunningly high numbers of women report having intrusive thoughts about harming their children—moments when their own brains betray them, when it’s clear that none of us are in total control over our own minds.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Schwartz only won Senate confirmation on Wednesday, after a hearing in which she pledged to “never betray the science” on which CDC policies are based.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Albuquerque in New Mexico is his base now - something his accent and phraseology sometimes betray - but Edinburgh will always be home.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

"It will never betray you, will always be loyal to you, and will love you unconditionally."

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

And though she didn’t dare look at him while she told him her truth, her moth watched his sleeping face for any flicker of expression that might betray disgust.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

That narrative betrays a rookie mistake that’s known among statisticians as the “gambler’s fallacy.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

The Wrap said "at times it betrays its amateur beginnings with clunky plotting."

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

The tension running through the campaign betrays a regime unsettled by the prospect of life after an octogenarian president.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

McAdams, by contrast, makes a giddy racket that betrays feelings her characters can neither fully understand nor contain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

The flattening of these degrees - that is, the slight lowering in pitch - betrays the origin of Blues melodies in older, modal key-families.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

“That was when everything exploded. On a personal level, we felt betrayed, but on a broader level, we felt treasoned,” he told me.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

"He feels Harry has betrayed him. He's made that clear."

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Again, it was the slider that betrayed Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

While others burned brightly for a short time before being betrayed by their bodies, he was a picture of consistency through the early days of his career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

There was no way she’d betrayed them that way.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

He said Simms did the right thing by not betraying his friendship with Shanahan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

But that refusal to risk vulnerability comes back to bite her when the daughter she turned herself inside out to spoil pulls a move reminiscent of Veda in “Mildred Pierce,” betraying Emma for vapid reasons.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

The contacts didn’t show Xiao was betraying his commitments, Gannon replied, arguing the employees in question were lower-level staff, who may have operated without Xiao’s knowledge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

Over a century ago, when the Supreme Court helped usher in Jim Crow, Justice John Marshall Harlan took his colleagues to task for betraying the promise of Reconstruction.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

As always seemed to be the case, a horizontal plume of condensation streamed from the summit like frozen smoke, betraying the violence of the jet-stream winds.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer