betray
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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
Yet lurching drops in some recent sessions betray investors’ underlying jitters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
"Respect me, respect Maya, and understand that not always one has to betray the other in order for a relationship to end."
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Recent pullbacks in hot chip stocks betray some nervousness around how far the artificial-intelligence trade can propel the market.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
“One more thing: The Queen said that either Jack or Phillip would betray you, and the other would die. Do you think she was lying to you?”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The Wrap said "at times it betrays its amateur beginnings with clunky plotting."
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Her eyes dart up and down in a manner that betrays rote memorization, not scholarship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
“It is reckless and betrays both common sense and public trust.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
"It betrays your class. It betrays your origin. All over the world people are trying to reclaim accents and dialects that have been lost."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
The hopeful expression on her face betrays her own wishes.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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
A stunned Emma wonders who could have betrayed her so intimately, and why.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
For many years Robroyston was mostly farming land, and best known as the location where William Wallace was betrayed and handed over to English soldiers in 1305.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
I can see why your friend felt betrayed.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
How could she sing when she had betrayed another human being!
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
He said Simms did the right thing by not betraying his friendship with Shanahan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 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
"Our justice system is betraying victims and survivors," said Eshghi.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
“The same expression of suffering, that furrowed & contorted brow betraying a life of reflection and ascetism,” he tells Jo.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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