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
Which film wins this face-off could foreshadow whether Marvel will maintain its dominance in theaters or whether DC, under Gunn, could finally start giving the studio a run for its money.
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Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Best of Friends - The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Pearl Bailey’s warm vocals paint a portrait of a friendship against all odds, tinged with an undercurrent of melancholy that foreshadows the pair's eventual falling out.
—Barry Levitt, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
Such debate 158 years after the war’s end foreshadowed the contentiousness of another eventful period in American politics.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Dec. 2024
So much like the poster foreshadowed, in this week’s Episode 7, Juliette takes a dive.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
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Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Best of Friends - The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Pearl Bailey’s warm vocals paint a portrait of a friendship against all odds, tinged with an undercurrent of melancholy that foreshadows the pair's eventual falling out.
—Barry Levitt, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
Such debate 158 years after the war’s end foreshadowed the contentiousness of another eventful period in American politics.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 Dec. 2024
So much like the poster foreshadowed, in this week’s Episode 7, Juliette takes a dive.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadow
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Zillow predicts home prices in the top five hottest markets will grow between 2.6 percent and 4.2 percent in 2025.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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The National Weather Service predicts that the ongoing windstorm will be the most destructive to have hit the Los Angeles region since 2011.Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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It is also prefigured (another Biblical device) by Pharaoh’s order, in Exodus, to kill all male babies born to Hebrew mothers.Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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The salon that resulted prefigured many of the ideas that would come to be identified with Transcendentalism, influencing not just a circle of famed contemporary thinkers but also an entire movement.New York Times, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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The incident implied that lawmakers were complicit in the development and deployment of Lumon’s technology, which is controversial among the general public.Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
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Does this imply that the labor market will remain solid throughout 2025?Harry Holzer, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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The Return was heralded as one of the best shows of the year, and certain journals like Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound considered it among the best films of 2017 despite its length.Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2025
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The two men were heralded by Democrats as patriots for speaking out and derided by Trump as insubordinate.Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
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At that point, analysts anticipate that the fund would only be enough to pay roughly 80 percent of what beneficiaries are owed.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Stage 5: Leading In this rare air, organizations will anticipate future AI developments and their potential impacts.Chris Stegh, Forbes, 8 Jan. 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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Correspondent Martha Teichner accompanied Blinken overseas to discuss the Biden administration foreign policy report card, and what Blinken foresees as a new administration takes over.David Morgan, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
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Their comprehensive expertise enabled them to foresee challenges, improvise solutions and harmonize the diverse elements of a structure into cohesive, enduring masterpieces.Francesco Iorio, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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