verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
well
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Somehow, it bodes well for the couture.
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Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.
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Dinner doesn't bode well for the food-loving gentleman entering the kitchen without a decent set of knives.
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Word on the street is that Sub Pop refused the new Friends' second album, which may not bode well .
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It boded well for the night.
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Those numbers bode well for the Raiders.
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It all seems to bode well for 1993 which, John Bennett reckons, should be better than 1992.
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That would not bode well for public access.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bode ill
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A restrained virility that boded ill for anyone so incredibly foolish as to even think of challenging his authority.
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It bodes ill that Mr Major, two-and-a-half years into office, still feels on trial.
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Such ruthless distrust, she thought, boded ill .
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The coincidence with union action boded ill for the survey; response rates to the questionnaire seemed likely to be very low.
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This animosity boded ill for their future cooperation in East Prussia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things.
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For a couple to be arguing so early in their relationship did not bode well for the future.
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It never bodes good when she looks like that; she's using the girl as a stalking horse.
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The evening had, on reflection, never boded well.
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Those numbers bode well for the Raiders.
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Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.
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Word on the street is that Sub Pop refused the new Friends' second album, which may not bode well.
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Yet, conservation biologists have begun to wonder if these long-hoped-for changes bode well for the land.