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  • past tense form of bide.
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bode

[bohd] / boʊd /


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Still, the Evercore team think that investors’ desire to continue betting on the AI boom may bode ill for some of those stocks that have been struggling of late.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

A successful push into new areas would bode well for XPeng’s earnings as China’s EV industry experiences a slowdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Even if Raducanu is fit enough to play Ruzic, her disrupted preparation does not bode well for the rigours of a Grand Slam tournament.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

That just doesn’t bode well for the future — it’s paying off in the present too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

Whatever it was, the look on the Gran’s face did not bode well.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

In the slalom race of their alpine combined success, they had recorded the fastest time of the day, which boded well for the giant slalom and slalom events later in the Games.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

All of that boded badly for high-flying names like Sandisk and Micron, as some of 2026’s biggest winners became this selloff’s big losers.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

The images boded ill for Mountain High, but as the night wore on, the resort’s fate remained a mystery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

Sophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Amazon's ramp-up in seasonal hires boded well for consumer discretionary spending, to a point.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023

It boded no good for the peace of mind of those about her—nor for her own.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

He also sees DSV’s faster-than-expected integration of DB Schenker as boding well for CargoWise, with the additional volumes supporting his expectation of a 2H skew to WiseTech’s results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Real wages adjusted for inflation fell in July for a 16th straight month in a sign households continued to feel the pinch from rising prices, separate data showed, boding ill for consumption.

From Reuters ● Sep. 8, 2023

A simplified prototype of the experiment that operates at room temperature is already remarkably sensitive, boding well for the final Archimedes apparatus's performance.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 29, 2023

A recent spike in mosquito-borne diseases — such as dengue fever and malaria — has underscored the fragility of the African country’s health system, boding ill for future challenges driven by climate change.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

A boding of ill we thought it, my father and I, for no tidings had we heard of Boromir since he went away, and no watcher on our borders had seen him pass.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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