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betoken

[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

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

From US News ● Oct. 14, 2016

His imposing exterior and expression of countenance all betoken the indefatigable perseverance and gigantic powers, both physical and intellectual, which find expression in his incomparable work upon Java, and his great chart of that island.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

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 circular patterning also betokens a geometry repeated around official Washington: the Oval Office, the Rotunda, the dome of the Jefferson Memorial.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2018

“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

Castro, ageing and ill, retained remnants of his charisma over these last few years but his gaunt frame and wide, non-seeing eyes betokened a world that was past.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2016

“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 cheek flushed as he spoke, and there was a hoarseness in his voice which betokened the working of strong feelings within him.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

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

His instrument for this was color, betokening light.

From Time Magazine Archive

The large and well-worn writing table is loaded with books of reference and a vast heap of tidily-arranged manuscript, betokening the fact that yet another new novel is under weigh.

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


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