betray
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But stunningly high numbers of women report having intrusive thoughts about harming their children—moments when their own brains betray them, when it’s clear that none of us are in total control over our own minds.
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
"It will never betray you, will always be loyal to you, and will love you unconditionally."
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 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
You know, a pet dragon wouldn’t betray me like this.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
But the language used throughout the filing to describe potential confusion betrays their fears.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
If she is weighing temporal against spiritual values, it can be only in a symbolic sense, because nothing about the figure or the setting betrays a sense of conflict.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Some of the exiled had betrayed Britain decades earlier, their names allegedly appearing on a “naughty list” in the Soviet Embassy in London “in the wake of 1989.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
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
But Audrey had acted like Jenna had betrayed us.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
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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
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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