as in omen
something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event
among some ancient peoples, solar eclipses were often seen as celestial bodings of earthly calamities
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as in promising
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 Synonyms for boding
Noun
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The temptation to read the white things of this novel as metaphors or omens is hard to resist.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2025 -
Based on the omens and mathematical trends the next successful United manager isn't due for a while.—
Charlotte Harpur,
The Athletic,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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As one manifestation of Carter’s commitment, his administration began to oppose loans from international financial institutions to rights-abusing governments, promising to provide financial support only after these countries demonstrated concrete improvements on human rights.—
Michael Posner,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Was Knies’ promising rookie season not necessarily a sign of things to come?—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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His removal makes our nation less secure and is a terrible portent for what's to come.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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The series’ treading-water quality feels like a portent, one that warns us Hollywood’s prequel formula won’t ever dare to change.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
17 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Punk and Emo, the forerunners of today’s worm-mollusks, lived on the dark seafloor amid gardens of sponges, nearly 200 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged on land.—
Kate Golembiewski,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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The company's North American forerunner, Chrysler, has been left for dead repeatedly over the decades, only to emerge with hit products like minivans in the 1980s and the Dodge Ram pickup in the 1990s.—
Joel Mathis,
theweek,
17 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Some potential precursor KPIs include: • The partner’s cost per lead (CPL) from different sources.—
Henry McIntosh,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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The petition — which itself isn’t a lawsuit but a precursor — was withdrawn this week.—
Mia Sato,
The Verge,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Mid- to late-cycle expansions don’t need to draw fuel from a deep reservoir of fear and foreboding, the way early-cycle recoveries do.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
14 Dec. 2024
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His aunts offered us tortillas to warm our hands while his uncle expressed dark forebodings about our chances of success.—
Kayla Aletha Welch,
Longreads,
19 Nov. 2024
Noun
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In politics, there are liars and better liars How the Biden administration helped avoid a coup in Guatemala China’s meddling in Taiwan election presages year of misinformation threats Need help keeping up with this tumultuous election?—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2024
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The New Moon in Virgo, which occurs shortly after Mercury turns direct, presages really big beginnings throughout the zodiac.—
Jennifer Culp,
Them,
16 Aug. 2024
Noun
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The thought of our freedom to get outside and mingle being suppressed has a foreshadowing of doom that has smothered the enchantment of snow days.—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
22 Jan. 2025
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This was a fair description of some elements in the Antall government—and a prescient foreshadowing of the populist style that Orban himself would later adopt.—
PAUL LENDVAI,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Aug. 2019
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“Boding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boding. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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