betray

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

Hrgovic, hardened by the kind of difficult nights Itauma had never experienced, simply stayed there and waited for the younger man's body to betray him.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 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

To do otherwise is to betray the covenant between California taxpayers and the UC system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

“Did our stalwart adventurer have a mishap? Did his clever tongue finally betray him?”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

But the size of the spending betrays how worried they are about people power.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

That narrative betrays a rookie mistake that’s known among statisticians as the “gambler’s fallacy.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

In the casino, Sarris eagerly greets his employees with a friendliness that betrays his repeated insistence that he’s a reclusive writer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

She betrays no emotion as she says this.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Soon the mordant Janice is chuckling to herself: “Now we’ve got ourselves a potboiler. A cheating husband. A mistress. A betrayed spouse.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

She said it with a bit of anger, as if I’d betrayed someone.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

He said Simms did the right thing by not betraying his friendship with Shanahan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Some accused her of betraying Davide Sanclimenti, who she later won the show with, while others praised her confidence.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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

They often chatted a minute or two before dropping off to sleep, but now both were afraid of betraying how strongly the Whisperer was affecting them.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart