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[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

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

From Seattle Times Jan. 19, 2017

"They don't start anything, and probably didn't determine much — but betoken a widespread disgust in the air."

From US News Sep. 30, 2016

His face bore the scars of wounds received at Minden, and his bravery, his stature, his bold and fierce manner, Houchard. his want of education, seemed to all to betoken the ideal sans-culotte general.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

The Wiseman reference betokens a certain seriousness on the part of the creators, an awareness that people might be watching who know a thing or two about the subject.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2025

“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

“The man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” Brown said.

From MSNBC Mar. 22, 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

And yet, even that everydayness betokened a complex reality.

From The Guardian Nov. 2, 2020

“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

His birth in the country of the Kenites and adepts betokened his consecration and separation, while the residence at Nazareth typified his Essenean relations.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook

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

Secretary of Agriculture, good crop weather is bad news, betokening bumper surpluses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then her footfalls had rung surely and rhythmically, betokening some quest in view; now they wavered, timidly, with uncertain beats as if the hope had gone out of her limbs.

From A Romance of Wastdale by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason




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