as in to promise
to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome
her natural gift for reading boded well for her future in school
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Recent Examples of bode
That bodes well for fans who want to hear the oldies on the Cure’s upcoming tour of Europe.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 6 June 2026
Those combinations bode well for a guy defensively.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 5 June 2026
This does not bode well for Democrats’ hopes in the November elections.
—Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
There is only so much drama to be found in the first 24 hours, and yet some Islanders have already managed to get their feelings hurt, which bodes well for the next six weeks — for us the viewers anyway.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 June 2026
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Chris Willman, Variety, 6 June 2026
Those combinations bode well for a guy defensively.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 5 June 2026
This does not bode well for Democrats’ hopes in the November elections.
—Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026
There is only so much drama to be found in the first 24 hours, and yet some Islanders have already managed to get their feelings hurt, which bodes well for the next six weeks — for us the viewers anyway.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bode
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McAfee resolved the charges, promising that the farm wouldn’t sell raw milk across state lines again.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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The funding will also allow the company to manufacture doses of its vaccine in parallel so that larger phase 2/3 trials can begin quickly if phase 1 data are promising.—
Paul Adepoju,
Scientific American,
14 June 2026
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There was no obvious precipitating event, but the encroachment of Grok seemed foreboding.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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The windowless hallways are narrow in the federal building that houses this immigration court, and the agents’ stocky bodies are foreboding in the tight corridors.—
Catherine E. Shoichet,
CNN Money,
1 Dec. 2025
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“Bode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bode. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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