betray

“I both embrace but betray certain rules,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

To believe that even good women might see their minds betray them so spectacularly would be to rescind control over an entire ideology that helps organize your world.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Albuquerque in New Mexico is his base now - something his accent and phraseology sometimes betray - but Edinburgh will always be home.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Over mint tea, Mr. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha speaks with the precision of a man who has watched history vindicate and betray his dynasty in equal measure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

“The second thing I learned when you lied to me,” hissed the snake to Baugi, who stood, astonished, holding the auger like a weapon, “was that you would betray me.”

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

The facade of the building betrays no affiliation—neither hammer nor sickle.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

While voters’ choices have been, more often than not, defensible, the unanimity betrays a lack of imagination and drains any hint of drama from the ceremony.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

That narrative betrays a rookie mistake that’s known among statisticians as the “gambler’s fallacy.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

Her eyes dart up and down in a manner that betrays rote memorization, not scholarship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

He looks straight ahead, but his voice betrays his nerves.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

This is right from the comics, but Hal’s best friend, his mentor, the person who trained him, betrayed everything he trusted and Hal had to put him away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

In a statement, the council's director of communications and corporate governance Colin Edgar claimed Unison had betrayed its own members by not balloting them.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Soon the mordant Janice is chuckling to herself: “Now we’ve got ourselves a potboiler. A cheating husband. A mistress. A betrayed spouse.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“That was when everything exploded. On a personal level, we felt betrayed, but on a broader level, we felt treasoned,” he told me.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Till they came to me and told me they’d been given word – we’d been betrayed and I had to go.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

"When I first got into alternative music I felt like I was betraying my race, and had to keep my love of rock practically secret," she writes in her new book.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

He said Simms did the right thing by not betraying his friendship with Shanahan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

But that refusal to risk vulnerability comes back to bite her when the daughter she turned herself inside out to spoil pulls a move reminiscent of Veda in “Mildred Pierce,” betraying Emma for vapid reasons.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

Mr. Sheffi’s book describes a great American institution avidly betraying its principles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

I know it’s my father she’s betraying, but it feels like it’s me too.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson