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bode

[bohd] / boʊd /


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The slight gap between the two candidates doesn’t bode well for Bass, since Raman is expected to secure a larger portion of the late-arriving ballots in the coming days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

That’s usually a sign of a lack of enthusiasm, and it doesn’t bode well for Tuesday’s results.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Analysts said that does not bode well for bilateral relations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Although the announcements bode well for the industry, Bill Birmingham, the head of research at Rex Financial, noted that they are mostly focused on setting standards for now.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Whatever it was, the look on the Gran’s face did not bode well.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

In the slalom race of their alpine combined success, they had recorded the fastest time of the day, which boded well for the giant slalom and slalom events later in the Games.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

All of that boded badly for high-flying names like Sandisk and Micron, as some of 2026’s biggest winners became this selloff’s big losers.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

The images boded ill for Mountain High, but as the night wore on, the resort’s fate remained a mystery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2024

Sophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Amazon's ramp-up in seasonal hires boded well for consumer discretionary spending, to a point.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023

So the Isle-Men of Low Torning had sent to Roke begging for a wizard to protect their folk from what boded over the western horizon, and the Archmage had judged their fear well founded.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

He also sees DSV’s faster-than-expected integration of DB Schenker as boding well for CargoWise, with the additional volumes supporting his expectation of a 2H skew to WiseTech’s results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

A simplified prototype of the experiment that operates at room temperature is already remarkably sensitive, boding well for the final Archimedes apparatus's performance.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 29, 2023

A recent spike in mosquito-borne diseases — such as dengue fever and malaria — has underscored the fragility of the African country’s health system, boding ill for future challenges driven by climate change.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

The bank said consumers face a darkening macro-economic picture, with energy shortages, geopolitical danger and ongoing shortages of some key commodities like wheat boding ill for global food security.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2022

A boding of ill we thought it, my father and I, for no tidings had we heard of Boromir since he went away, and no watcher on our borders had seen him pass.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien


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