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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

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

You can glimpse it in the ghostly shadows that haunt the laboriously reworked surfaces of her abstractions, where stray textures roam and partially painted-over sections bespeak decisions that didn’t work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2016

I spake to Aina, saying, Aina yesterday I wishd you would bespeak an Owl for me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The sudden explosion of online sports betting bespeaks a nation of young men looking for ways to pocket cash for no work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

But his many TV roles are marked by a sense of implacable stillness that bespeaks the maturity that comes from a long career.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

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

“It’s nice not to feel like the world has passed you by,” says Kiedis, whose ’70s-style mustache bespeaks a certain confidence in his status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

Fortified towns emerged in the third millennium B.C., with cemeteries whose great variation between unadorned and luxuriously furnished graves bespeaks emerging class differences.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

And then bespake Sir Bredbeddle, And these were the words said he: "Why, I will wrestle with yon lodly feend, God! my governor thou shalt bee."

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

Then bespake him Little John, All unto Robin Hood, "Master, if ye would dine betime, It would do you much good!"

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse 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

And then bespake him the Greene Knight, 230 And these were the words said he: Saith, "I coniure thee, thou fowle feend, That thou feitch downe the steed that we see."

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

"It's going to be bespoke to your farm."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But they retained the power to budget millions of dollars for equipment or bespoke research and development.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Athletes arrived on bespoke London buses and walked the red carpet before their event.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

The crown jewel of their elaborate trading positions was still the $2 billion in bespoke credit default swaps Hubler felt certain would one day very soon yield $2 billion in pure profits.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

But the old lady had already, before the baptism, bespoken a young man of heavenly beauty from Barby.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

In the mean time, half the tradesmen of Avignon, to say nothing of Aix, have bespoken caricatures of themselves by his hand.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

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