betray
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To believe that even good women might see their minds betray them so spectacularly would be to rescind control over an entire ideology that helps organize your world.
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
Detained since late January 2025, he described his time already spent behind bars as “extraordinarily difficult” and said, “I did not betray my country.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
As we passed the soldiers, even though my legs felt so rubbery I wasn’t sure they would remember how to keep on moving, I forced my face not to betray my fears.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
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
"Somewhere down the line in a fine muscle control game like snooker, your body betrays your brain," Davis said.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
His expression is calm, but he’s angry—the terseness in his voice betrays him.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
"You get messages from people from those villages: 'You betrayed us. You didn't come...' But if I go, I may risk the life of the driver."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“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
“That’s not for me to say,” was Amy’s grim reply, but her lips would smile, and there was a traitorous sparkle of the eye which betrayed that she knew her power and enjoyed the knowledge.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
He said Simms did the right thing by not betraying his friendship with Shanahan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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
Some jokingly accused him of betraying his hometown team.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
I was betraying Gran and spinning her memory away all at once.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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