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bode

[bohd] / boʊd /


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Even if Raducanu is fit enough to play Ruzic, her disrupted preparation does not bode well for the rigours of a Grand Slam tournament.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

The results should bode well for both investors’ and borrowers’ confidence in the financial system.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

This should bode well for the Thai hospital operator as revenue from Middle East patients grew 21% on year in 1Q, compared with a 1% gain in overall revenue, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Campaign strategists love to tout a military record, a blue-collar résumé, small-business ownership, and a life of family and faith, in part because they suggest qualities that bode well for a political leader.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2026

From here it was impossible to see the door, which didn’t bode well.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

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

“The shift towards normality after the pandemic has overall boded well for global livability in 2023,” said Upasana Dutt, head of the livability index at EIU.

From Seattle Times Jun. 22, 2023

While she had never warmed to Driscoll herself, it was not a story that boded well for any woman who worked for the Navy.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

They also combing the Mediterranean off Derna, searching for boding swept away in the floods.

From Seattle Times Sep. 25, 2023

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

On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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