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noun

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verb

variants also forboding
present participle of forebode

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of foreboding
Adjective
As well as that, there's a foreboding shot of Galactus casting his considerable shadow over New York City. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025 Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
But they are also weighted with foreboding, especially as Carter asks her to perform stranger acts. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for foreboding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreboding
Adjective
  • The fall in the dollar and rise in bond yields that went with it have been truly ominous.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • If the sky turns ominous and thunder can be heard, find a secure place for shelter.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Depending on the bike, this can counteract any wonky feel of the ride.
    Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Todd Snyder x Bon Iver Sweater Hoodie – $398 – crafted from Snyder’s signature Nomad yarn — a recycled Italian cashmere that offers a plush, lofty feel and the perfect weight for year-round wear.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Weinstein’s thuggish joke was just one portent of the edgy, borderline sinister air that permeated the party from the very beginning.
    Scott Huver, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
  • As the two settle into their new house, Michael Shanks, the film’s Australian writer-director, pulls an anything-goes series of shocking portents.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For many, as the rain kept falling, there was a sense of dread that the worst was still to come.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Thus, the fear of displacement has not become a distant memory but a continuous dread as the age of gentrification looms over the neighborhood.
    Alyza J Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Was Knies’ promising rookie season not necessarily a sign of things to come?
    Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • As digitally dropped threats from an unknown predator grow increasingly sinister during the protagonist’s big date at a Chicago restaurant, the messages blast across the big screen in huge letters, or plaster an entire wall of the ladies’ restroom.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Thorne starred in the film as a young woman who discovers her father has been killed after returning to her small hometown, while Rourke, 72, starred as a sinister sheriff.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Yet this brand of Christian Zionism is clearly the forerunner to today’s – and holds sway in Washington.
    Shalom Goldman, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The title is an apt, if sort of obvious, introduction to Turner, who has been hailed as the forerunner to modern art.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Consumer sentiment fell sharply in April, marking the fourth consecutive month of declines, as an intensifying trade war fueled anxiety over American jobs and rising inflation.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Is loyalty to an old friend and/or anxiety about having a kid reason enough to spend a day or two away from a wife who could go into labor at any minute?
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025

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“Foreboding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreboding. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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