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betoken

[bih-toh-kuhn] / bɪˈtoʊ kən /


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The SpaceX IPO had some peculiarities that have made the stock especially volatile, and betoken more volatility ahead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Cityscapes materialize on backdrops in ways that betoken both the dreamlike landscapes of Monet as well as the Tinseltown innovation of film colorization.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2017

In electoral politics, likewise: a successful re-election that seemed to betoken a sustained realignment for the Democrats.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2017

At the time, these episodes loomed large and seemed to betoken a troubled presidency.

From US News ● Oct. 14, 2016

The tears were caused by the pleased surprise; the moans at her having come home on a Friday, for that must surely betoken ill-luck.

From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood

That’s not to say, given the setting and the setup, which betokens tragedy as surely as Romeo meeting Juliet, it doesn’t throb with tension, let’s say, three-quarters of the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

It betokens a seamless commitment to the depth of engagement championed by her predecessor, Howard Shalwitz.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019

“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” Brown told host Chuck Todd.

From US News ● Mar. 23, 2015

Not just denies: “That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of scientific data,” Brown said Sunday during an appearance on Meet the Press.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2015

Researchers have often wondered whether the Inka collapse betokens a major historical lesson.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

And yet, even that everydayness betokened a complex reality.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2020

Nominated plays such as Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me” and Taylor Mac’s “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” betokened the emergence of singular off-Broadway talents as major Broadway players.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2019

“But even that’s a cliché, you know. And then you’ve got ‘the sun peeped through the foliage’ and ‘the ominous black clouds that betokened thunder’—betokened, right?

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 10, 2016

I think Obama really betokened a new day in America.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2016

The Egyptians must have chiefly been struck by the simplicity of character which this request betokened.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

Set designer Donald Eastman places the action in an airy courtyard of broken concrete slabs — the cracks in the cement betokening the fissures that will symbolically swallow up Floyd.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021

Steven Soderbergh is an executive producer, betokening prestige and meaning that his name is linked with the title in every press report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2017

These days, you might well think, to have your house blurred from Google Street View is the new status symbol, a must-have digital absence betokening your big-ass presence in the world of celebrity.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2014

His instrument for this was color, betokening light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now we should hold our palm until the singer begins the offering-song, and then offer to God the palm for its betokening.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric


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