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[bih-toh-kuhn] / bɪˈtoʊ kən /


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And though releasing a series in the last week of the year doesn’t exactly betoken confidence, I can predict with some confidence that there might be one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2025

But it doesn’t betoken a path to profitability, in part because the improvement reflected an intensified squeeze on drivers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2019

Cityscapes materialize on backdrops in ways that betoken both the dreamlike landscapes of Monet as well as the Tinseltown innovation of film colorization.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2017

At the time, these episodes loomed large and seemed to betoken a troubled presidency.

From US News ● Oct. 14, 2016

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

And there is Sicilia himself, a compelling figure: worn but not weary, soft-spoken in a way that betokens strength.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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

“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” Brown said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2015

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Nominated plays such as Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me” and Taylor Mac’s “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” betokened the emergence of singular off-Broadway talents as major Broadway players.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2019

“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

The fact of a bear swimming in the sea betokened that ice was not far off, and so it proved.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

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

With a stationary or declining population, exposed to the assaults of powerful external foes, and racked by internal pains betokening the demise of the mediæval order, white Europe’s future appeared a far from happy one.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard


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