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bode

[bohd] / boʊd /


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That doesn’t bode well for the contribution exports will make in the final quarter of the year, when the economy is already expected to feel the strain of heightened trade tensions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

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

The Prime Minister had seen that kind of look in politicians before, and it never boded well.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

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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