betoken
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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
At the time, these episodes loomed large and seemed to betoken a troubled presidency.
From US News ● Oct. 14, 2016
Only Ferdinand Cludde remained, and he stood a little apart, and seemed more deeply engaged in listening for any sound which might betoken the sheriff's approach than in hearkening to their conversation.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
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
The show is presented in a wider-than-usual widescreen format that gives it a feel we still call "cinematic" and which betokens a certain seriousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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
Researchers have often wondered whether the Inka collapse betokens a major historical lesson.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
You have won your first point, but if I know the governor's face there was something in it that betokened more to come.
From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart
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
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Somewhere in the westward distances a thunderous murmur was droning upon the windless air of the June morning, betokening, as it seemed, the very catastrophe the ex-grade-laborer was prefiguring.
From The Real Man by Francis Lynde
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