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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

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

"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

Portend, por-tend′, v.t. to indicate the future by signs: to betoken: presage.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

That’s not to say, given the setting and the setup, which betokens tragedy as surely as Romeo meeting Juliet, it doesn’t throb with tension, let’s say, three-quarters of the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

The setting betokens the monumental standoff expertly executed by Boston and Wallace, who stand as twin pillars of this transitional American age.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

“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

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

And although it was a mere pretence on her part, there was that in her look as they talked together that betokened their conversation to be serious.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

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

In all these works there is much insight into human nature, and the French scenes are particularly bright and life-like, betokening the author's intimate knowledge of foreign cities.

From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Helen C. Black