forerun

verb

fȯr-ˈrən How to pronounce forerun (audio)
Definition of forerunnext
as in to herald
to give a slight indication of beforehand the moral decay that traditionally foreruns the decline of a mighty empire

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forerun
  1. herald
  2. foreshadow
  3. predict
  4. imply
  5. anticipate
  6. adumbrate
  7. prefigure
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  • In the captions, SZA heralds the release of Lana, out Dec. 20, and Stiller’s TV series, Severance, which premieres its second season Jan. 17 (and is SZA’s favorite show).
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
  • If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Patel would herald a radical leadership transformation at the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency.
    Eric Tucker, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of herald
Verb
  • There’s another part of the movie that could foreshadow a Kraven-Spidey showdown.
    James Grebey, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
  • There are things from her childhood that foreshadowed her gift for writing.
    Pam Windsor, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of foreshadow
Verb
  • If Reddit achieves profitability in 2025, as Nowak predicts, the company could be on the path for inclusion into an S & P index, the analyst said.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The same report highlights that by integrating AI to predict equipment failures and automate routine quality control checks, enterprises have reported a 40% reduction in downtime and an almost 15% increase in overall productivity.
    Dean DeBiase, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of predict
Verb
  • While the firm has a 2025 year-end price target of 6,600 for the S & P 500 , implying upside of 9% from Tuesday’s close, Johnson expects the small-cap Russell will outpace that clip.
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Grief has been called a journey, but a journey implies an endpoint.
    Nancy Borowick, NPR, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of imply
Verb
  • The company anticipates that about 30% of its revenue will come from overseas markets in the near future.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Dec. 2024
  • By the end of this year, Dollar General anticipates these efforts will result in year-over-year reductions in delivery miles of approximately 4 percent or greater in both the company’s traditional and grocery supply chains.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of anticipate
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of adumbrate
Verb
  • The details are what captivate; chrome strips on the hood and sides, and exquisite chrome hood hinges prefiguring the decklid hinges on Ferrari’s 275 GTB/4.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Woody’s facial-recognition research in the 1960s prefigured all these technological breakthroughs and their queasy ethical implications.
    Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020
Definition of prefigure
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