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betoken

[bih-toh-kuhn] / bɪˈtoʊ kən /


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The SpaceX IPO had some peculiarities that have made the stock especially volatile, and betoken more volatility ahead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

This “Cyrano” centers the freedom that new forms of drama betoken, and all the ways that the writing of the past can feed them — from Rostand to Emily Dickinson.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022

Banks employ armies of people in back offices, looking for discrepancies that may betoken fraud or honest error.

From Economist ● Mar. 22, 2018

In electoral politics, likewise: a successful re-election that seemed to betoken a sustained realignment for the Democrats.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2017

Up the Columbia the great gorge through which we have passed stands open to view, while down-river the sinuous and hazy lines of low-lying shore betoken the nearer proximity of the ocean.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

The setting betokens the monumental standoff expertly executed by Boston and Wallace, who stand as twin pillars of this transitional American age.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

The show is presented in a wider-than-usual widescreen format that gives it a feel we still call "cinematic" and which betokens a certain seriousness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2015

“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” Brown told host Chuck Todd.

From US News ● Mar. 23, 2015

Not just denies: “That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of scientific data,” Brown said Sunday during an appearance on Meet the Press.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2015

Researchers have often wondered whether the Inka collapse betokens a major historical lesson.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The statistics betokened a return to artistic health for the 41 theaters of Broadway, forced to shut down for 15 months starting in March 2020 because of the pandemic.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022

“But even that’s a cliché, you know. And then you’ve got ‘the sun peeped through the foliage’ and ‘the ominous black clouds that betokened thunder’—betokened, right?

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 10, 2016

I think Obama really betokened a new day in America.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2016

Separate dooms For separate deeds, betokened by how he Runs rings around himself with his long tail, So many turns for such and such a fault.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013

Scurvy is betokened by a swollen, spongy, and easily-bleeding state of the gums.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Set designer Donald Eastman places the action in an airy courtyard of broken concrete slabs — the cracks in the cement betokening the fissures that will symbolically swallow up Floyd.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021

Steven Soderbergh is an executive producer, betokening prestige and meaning that his name is linked with the title in every press report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2017

These days, you might well think, to have your house blurred from Google Street View is the new status symbol, a must-have digital absence betokening your big-ass presence in the world of celebrity.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2014

The one serene, smiling, freshly powdered, betokening a mild day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before the letters came, last evening, we heard continual cries of "Pende lepta," betokening the issue of an extra.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe


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