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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

That just doesn’t bode well for the future — it’s paying off in the present too.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

The failure of negotiations to reach a conclusive end to the war doesn’t bode well for U.S.-Gulf ties, Saif said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 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

And if Governor Blanco was right, that these were vets coming straight from Afghanistan and Iraq, it could not bode well for her husband.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

You can go on and on with comparisons, but something big boding in favor of this season’s team is the likelihood of Daccord maintaining his numbers beyond the streak.

From Seattle Times Jan. 12, 2024

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

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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