betray
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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
You can't go against your values, nor can you betray others.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
“I believe that America carries the hope of humanity. To betray that would be to betray both hope and humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
But as the heat climbed above 91 degrees, Sinner’s body began to betray him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
He would betray and betray and betray again.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
That narrative betrays a rookie mistake that’s known among statisticians as the “gambler’s fallacy.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Expecting Scotland to 'go for it' like mad dogs in a meathouse betrays a serious lack of understanding of the weather here.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
The Wrap said "at times it betrays its amateur beginnings with clunky plotting."
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Queer desire, femininity, and lipstick form an intrepid triptych in the form of pop star Chappell Roan, whose persona betrays both her rural Missouri provenance and the glittery legacy of drag performance.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
In the back of her mind, she had a nagging thought: What if this is a trick and he betrays us?
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
“It was just a safe place for us to change. And he betrayed our trust,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Trump has told advisers that he is angry with Pirro and felt betrayed by the court filing, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
What stayed with those who heard the evidence was not the criminal offences alone that hurt families - it was how Bush betrayed them at their most vulnerable.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
A stunned Emma wonders who could have betrayed her so intimately, and why.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 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
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
Alas, the results are mixed, betraying the stark limits of this approach and the need for a kind of history that fully integrates anguished medieval chronicles with modern molecular evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He was truly fearless, and she admired that beyond measure; but he wasn’t good at lying and betraying and cheating, which all came to her as naturally as breathing.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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