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Whatever the validity of that charge, it doesn’t bespeak an administration indifferent to the fate of American political ideas abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

In an age whose surplus — linguistic, economic — often seems to bespeak an underlying emptiness, is it possible for “a profound experience of art” still to mean something?

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

Personally I am devoted to Jake, his puppyish enthusiasm, his liveliness and fleetness of non-toxic banter which all bespeak a profound purity of soul.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2019

Robyn’s radical career moves bespeak that security; as a Canadian, I’ve seen how access to public health care alone widens artists’ range of choices.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2018

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The sudden explosion of online sports betting bespeaks a nation of young men looking for ways to pocket cash for no work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

“It bespeaks a really, really big misunderstanding,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

But his many TV roles are marked by a sense of implacable stillness that bespeaks the maturity that comes from a long career.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

But it bespeaks a fundamental and cruel misunderstanding of autonomy and liberty rights, and a return to something far more pernicious.

From Slate ● May 10, 2022

Fortified towns emerged in the third millennium B.C., with cemeteries whose great variation between unadorned and luxuriously furnished graves bespeaks emerging class differences.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Then bespake him Cornewall King, These were the words he said there: 80 "Did you ever know a comely King, His name was King Arthur?"

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

And then bespake him King Arthur, "Alas! thou gentle knight, how may this be, That I might see him in the same licknesse, That he stood unto thee?"

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

X But when the queen survey'd them, and found the band so few, Thus she, amidst her fury, bespake her friends anew.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

And then bespake him the Greene Knight, 230 And these were the words said he: Saith, "I coniure thee, thou fowle feend, That thou feitch downe the steed that we see."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Then bespake Cornwall King againe, These were the words said he.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Jonathan Silva and his team at WS Game Company set a challenge for themselves last year: Produce a bespoke Monopoly game that was 100% made in America by February.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

But they retained the power to budget millions of dollars for equipment or bespoke research and development.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The Alder Hey doctors, external saw one young patient in 2023, nine in 2024, and then "a rapid escalation" in 2025, which led them to open the bespoke clinic in May.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Apple's hope is that creating bespoke content will help to distinguish its service from competitors like Spotify and Amazon Music.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Whereas the church rose high, this building seemed to cling to the earth with a weight and bulk that bespoke earthly power.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

In the mean time, half the tradesmen of Avignon, to say nothing of Aix, have bespoken caricatures of themselves by his hand.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

Roy had made her acquainted with his excellences as well as his peculiarities, and bespoken for him a worthy place in her regard.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

Pratt was stout, compact and level-eyed, with a raspy drawl bespeaking his childhood on the Louisiana bayou.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

But when you know that he thought of his look as bespeaking a kind of weightlessness, you could also surmise that he knew the price of such flight might be life itself.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

On one of my infrequent breaks from forcing myself not to knock the thing back in three gulps, I sought to give the drink a name bespeaking its virtues and dubbed it the Gimletti Punch.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013

Therem the younger son; Arek the elder, that brother whose voice he had heard in mine bespeaking him; both dead now.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin