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Whatever the validity of that charge, it doesn’t bespeak an administration indifferent to the fate of American political ideas abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

For some time, we’ve existed in a cynical zone in which any public tears bespeak performance.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022

Personally I am devoted to Jake, his puppyish enthusiasm, his liveliness and fleetness of non-toxic banter which all bespeak a profound purity of soul.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2019

Robyn’s radical career moves bespeak that security; as a Canadian, I’ve seen how access to public health care alone widens artists’ range of choices.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2018

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The film can hardly avoid being described as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” meets “Enemy of the State,” and that such comparisons are so obvious bespeaks a certain lack of originality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a 1-year-old in the U.S. was about 56 years; that bespeaks a morbid population of infants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

Those who say they sleep well are a little bashful, as if their easy rest bespeaks a too-cosseted mind, a too-simple life.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

But it bespeaks a fundamental and cruel misunderstanding of autonomy and liberty rights, and a return to something far more pernicious.

From Slate ● May 10, 2022

The fact that this surprises me only bespeaks the depths of my ignorance.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Then bespake our comely King To Sir Richard at the Lee: He gave him there his land again; A good man he bade him be.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Then bespake Cornwall King againe, These were the words said he.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Thus, full attired In all her ornaments, she issued forth, And beck'ning Venus from the other pow'rs Of Heav'n apart, the Goddess thus bespake: 'Daughter, beloved!

From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by John Knowles

Then bespake him Cornewall King, These were the words he said there: 80 "Did you ever know a comely King, His name was King Arthur?"

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

She found herself in a large square room sparsely but comfortably furnished in a style that bespake it as the former sitting-room of the dead and buried Japhas.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green

Another fan, a nail artist, crafted spooky bespoke black and purple press-ons decorated with intricate white hares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Artisans at the London fashion house Safiyaa spent 150 hours embroidering Anderson’s bespoke silk reception outfit.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The two brides celebrated with an intimate dinner for family and friends, before exchanging vows beneath the Chuppah in bespoke looks by Israeli fashion designer Oria Azran.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Lawmakers acknowledged that the legislation is just a start, and that it is increasingly difficult for public officials to detect bespoke letters, deepfake videos or other kinds of engagement powered by AI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Before the Scientific Revolution facts were few and far between: they were handmade, bespoke rather than mass produced, they were poorly distributed, they were often unreliable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

In the mean time Beethoven wrote several Sonatas and Quartetts, which were bespoken by various noble personages and publishers.

From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler

I shall take passages immediately, because berths are bespoken months before at this time of year.

From A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cambridge

Pratt was stout, compact and level-eyed, with a raspy drawl bespeaking his childhood on the Louisiana bayou.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

But when you know that he thought of his look as bespeaking a kind of weightlessness, you could also surmise that he knew the price of such flight might be life itself.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

On one of my infrequent breaks from forcing myself not to knock the thing back in three gulps, I sought to give the drink a name bespeaking its virtues and dubbed it the Gimletti Punch.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013

Therem the younger son; Arek the elder, that brother whose voice he had heard in mine bespeaking him; both dead now.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin