Thesaurus results for ADUMBRATE

adumbrate

verb

ˈa-dəm-ˌbrāt

as in to anticipate

to give a slight indication of beforehand the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow

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Recent Examples on the Web 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 The helicopter crash, on the other hand, is a narrative dead end, merely adumbrating the portrait that Mr. Davenport will draw of Mr. Bezos as unflappable. —

Randall Stross, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018

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But those appearances were anticipated in advance, the candidates didn’t pop in days before the general election.

Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
While web3 integration does not seem absolutely required to participate in the gaming experience, analysts anticipate most players engaging with these features for the full gaming experience.

Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024