as in to predict
to give a slight indication of beforehand
a series of small tremors that foreshadowed the massive earthquake the next day
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Recent Examples of foreshadow
All of this comes to a head in a dark night of the soul that is foreshadowed in the season’s opening moments.
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The film, with its message to help friends in need, heavily foreshadows a conflict to come: Two months after its release, the U.S. entered the Second World War and Disney converted his studio into a propaganda factory.
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—Jeremy Fassler, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
The day after Trump's inauguration, the staffers wrote, they were called into a series of interviews that foreshadowed the secretive and disruptive work of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The New York Yankees’ worst nightmare has come true, though there were certainly signs that foreshadowed their most devastating injury yet this spring.
—Gary Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The film, with its message to help friends in need, heavily foreshadows a conflict to come: Two months after its release, the U.S. entered the Second World War and Disney converted his studio into a propaganda factory.
79.
—Jeremy Fassler, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
The day after Trump's inauguration, the staffers wrote, they were called into a series of interviews that foreshadowed the secretive and disruptive work of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2025
The New York Yankees’ worst nightmare has come true, though there were certainly signs that foreshadowed their most devastating injury yet this spring.
—Gary Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadow
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Instead of probabilistically predicting the next token in a sequence, these systems learn to represent the world at multiple levels of abstraction and to predict how their representations will evolve under different conditions.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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Edwards and other experts predict the government will rely on an existing bank partner rather than build a new system from scratch.—
Dan Avery,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2025
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Cromwell is at the peak of his power, but the opening shot of Anne on her way to her death prefigures his own fall at the hands of the capricious royal.—
Roslyn Sulcas,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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And then: How Democrats lost their way on immigration Elon Musk’s war on federal employees is bad math The mystery novel that prefigured the L.A. wildfires Mikey Madison.—
Erin Neil,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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This implies a poor Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 64.7% (vs. 19.0% for S&P 500).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Everything’s only implied or suggested, as if the show is unwilling to make a direct statement regarding Simms and Phillips’ relationship.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
3 Apr. 2025
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After a June event heralding a new AI-powered Siri, the company has delayed its release indefinitely.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2025
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When the 2026 rules were announced, improved cost control was heralded as one of their benefits, but Tombazis said their expense was a consideration.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Many major insurers cover its services, and nationwide coverage is anticipated by the end of the year.—
Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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By Saturday evening as much as 10 to 12 inches of rain is anticipated across parts of the region.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
18 Oct. 2019
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Nothing in America’s tepid 19th-century contributions to European classical music adumbrated it; nor did the homely and sometimes hokey popular songs of Stephen Foster.—
Heather Mac Donald,
National Review,
22 Aug. 2019
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The White House foresees the automotive tariffs to generate $100 billion annually.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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The storms are foreseen to bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch).—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2025
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“Foreshadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshadow. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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