betrayal
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Graham said "money must be spent in the UK" when the DIP is finally agreed and "anything else would be a betrayal".
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
To take it from Otterstrom’s fellow Utahns, the betrayal is not just that the already data-center-dense state is getting another one, but that they feel there was no opportunity for democratic deliberation.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
Big Tech’s obsession with AI infrastructure is starting to feel like a betrayal to the legions of gamers who nurtured some of the key companies and technologies driving the boom.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
“When there’s a betrayal at the top, it’s the worst thing that can happen to an organization like this,” said Eduardo Guerrero, a Mexican security expert.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Sometimes a woman’s voice broke through, and then the men shouted louder, glass shattered violently, and the songs on the jukebox went from boleros about betrayal to guarachas and merengues about the good life.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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