bode
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A successful push into new areas would bode well for XPeng’s earnings as China’s EV industry experiences a slowdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
Economists said the figures do not bode well for French growth this year, with some already expecting a further GDP slowdown in the current quarter.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Those figures bode ill for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, whose organizers are also counting on a robust flow of foreign visitors.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Whatever it was, the look on the Gran’s face did not bode well.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
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
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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
It garnered roaring applause — boding well for the direction of the age-old house that has gained renewed focus in recent years.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 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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