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Whatever the validity of that charge, it doesn’t bespeak an administration indifferent to the fate of American political ideas abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Personally I am devoted to Jake, his puppyish enthusiasm, his liveliness and fleetness of non-toxic banter which all bespeak a profound purity of soul.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2019

Robyn’s radical career moves bespeak that security; as a Canadian, I’ve seen how access to public health care alone widens artists’ range of choices.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2018

You can glimpse it in the ghostly shadows that haunt the laboriously reworked surfaces of her abstractions, where stray textures roam and partially painted-over sections bespeak decisions that didn’t work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2016

As his eyes met mine I was suddenly moved to bespeak him, to try to reach him with the mindspeech I had never used since I landed on Winter, and should not use, yet.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The film can hardly avoid being described as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” meets “Enemy of the State,” and that such comparisons are so obvious bespeaks a certain lack of originality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a 1-year-old in the U.S. was about 56 years; that bespeaks a morbid population of infants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

But his many TV roles are marked by a sense of implacable stillness that bespeaks the maturity that comes from a long career.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

“It creates debris all around. Most importantly, in a psychological sense, it bespeaks the fact that we can’t get basic services done, and that’s never a good message.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2021

The fact that this surprises me only bespeaks the depths of my ignorance.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

X But when the queen survey'd them, and found the band so few, Thus she, amidst her fury, bespake her friends anew.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Then bespake him the Greene Knight, These were the words said hee: 220 Saies, "I doe coniure thee, thou fowle feend, In the same licknesse thou stood unto me."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

And then bespake him noble King Arthur, These were the words said hee: "I doe not know that comly King, 85 But once my selfe I did him see."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Then up bespake a little bird, That sat upon a tree: "Gae hame, gae hame, ye fause lady,35 And pay your maids their fee."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

With that bespake the seven brethren, Making most piteous mone, "You may go kiss your jolly brown bride,55 And let our sister alone."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

When markets trade near historical highs, investors need clear signals about operating strength, not bespoke metrics designed to help management beat consensus estimates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Many Americans are going beyond the usual mass tours, adding bespoke experiences that connect them with locals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Oxford United teamed up with local street artist and lifelong U's supporter Andrew Manson to design this season's kit, along with a bespoke piece of artwork.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Compounding pharmacies, which mix bespoke drugs, are a loophole in the U.S. regulatory system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Somewhere in Oregon, on a rainy Sunday, the gallant Rocinante bespoke my attention.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The Pentagon's bespoken spokesman Ken Bacon is getting to be the harbinger of a lot of bad news about the Kosovo situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Observers wondered if the 20,000 were more acutely bespoken by General Pershing and Commander Savage than they were by often-wounded Captain Jean Piot, a contributor to L'Oeuvre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Every team in Rosewater was bespoken for the distinguished occasion, and the reports of the weather bureau were consulted daily.

From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"I hope your dances are not all bespoken, Princess," I said.

From Long Live the King by Guy Boothby

Pratt was stout, compact and level-eyed, with a raspy drawl bespeaking his childhood on the Louisiana bayou.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

But when you know that he thought of his look as bespeaking a kind of weightlessness, you could also surmise that he knew the price of such flight might be life itself.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

For one thing, some of it is very funny, as in a tableau positioning two porcelain figurines of colonial-era gentry before a regal, glowering jet-black face looming above them, their graceful postures bespeaking total incomprehension.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

On one of my infrequent breaks from forcing myself not to knock the thing back in three gulps, I sought to give the drink a name bespeaking its virtues and dubbed it the Gimletti Punch.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013

Therem the younger son; Arek the elder, that brother whose voice he had heard in mine bespeaking him; both dead now.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin