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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

Strange and complicated rhythm structures and overheated harmonies, along with mystic bird calls in the piano all bespeak the magic of his young love.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

Under dark dusk and through the rainy streets that bespeak the Old Smoke’s subpar drainage system, we ride to the Saatchi Gallery.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

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

I spake to Aina, saying, Aina yesterday I wishd you would bespeak an Owl for me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The sudden explosion of online sports betting bespeaks a nation of young men looking for ways to pocket cash for no work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Those who say they sleep well are a little bashful, as if their easy rest bespeaks a too-cosseted mind, a too-simple life.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

“It bespeaks a really, really big misunderstanding,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

“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

Fortified towns emerged in the third millennium B.C., with cemeteries whose great variation between unadorned and luxuriously furnished graves bespeaks emerging class differences.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Thus he bespake the conqueror, "You for my grief shall pay; Of many a valiant champion you've robb'd us here to-day."

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

With that bespake the master brave:105 "Worshipfull master, thither goes this pretty youth, And any thing that you would have, He will performe it, and write the truth."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

XIV Now every path and outlet the huntsmen had beset, When thus bespake Sir Siegfried the chiefs who there were met.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Just at the holy churchyard bold Hagan bade them stand, And keep all well together, and thus bespake the crew.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Lawmakers acknowledged that the legislation is just a start, and that it is increasingly difficult for public officials to detect bespoke letters, deepfake videos or other kinds of engagement powered by AI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

So far, Bancel has said if the vaccine is approved, it would be priced less than CAR-T therapies, a bespoke cancer treatment that can run up to $500,000 for a single patient.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

So far, there is no bespoke AI regulation in the UK.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Díaz came up with the title after visiting his cousin Chef Tino’s restaurant in Isabela, Puerto Rico, where he observed his cousin create a similarly bespoke experience in his kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The way she sat, moved, talked, did everything, bespoke somebody who did and got exactly what she wanted.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

But the old lady had already, before the baptism, bespoken a young man of heavenly beauty from Barby.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

You will still breakfast, therefore, in the parlour; and, at your own time, you will ask for a chaise, which I have bespoken to carry you back to Lewes.

From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

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

He heard my voice bespeaking him as a dead man’s, his brother’s voice.

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