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
The federal government’s gross national debt has surpassed $34 trillion, a record high that foreshadows the coming political and economic challenges to improve America’s balance sheet in the coming years.
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Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025
Regardless, there’s a lot of guessing right now about whether Zeldin’s tweet foreshadows further federal action.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
In one scene, Nancy experiences a crazy dream that foreshadows her grisly discovery, finding herself in the model town, which holds a dark secret.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2025
During the first season, an innocent character finds a questionable vial, which in other examples of the genre may typically foreshadow a long and arduous addiction storyline.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
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Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025
Regardless, there’s a lot of guessing right now about whether Zeldin’s tweet foreshadows further federal action.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
In one scene, Nancy experiences a crazy dream that foreshadows her grisly discovery, finding herself in the model town, which holds a dark secret.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2025
During the first season, an innocent character finds a questionable vial, which in other examples of the genre may typically foreshadow a long and arduous addiction storyline.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadow
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Edwards and other experts predict the government will rely on an existing bank partner rather than build a new system from scratch.—
Dan Avery,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2025
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The club said that this sort of injury is impossible to predict and this speculation is hindsight.—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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More about Jason Zinoman Inside the World of Comedy A new documentary shows how Andy Kaufman’s upside-down world of anti-comedy prefigured our own.—
Jason Zinoman,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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With his extraordinary series of books prefiguring the rockets and robots that could set the stage for the human exploration and transformation of Mars, Zubrin is widely considered the supreme conceptual creator of a future Eden-like New World on Mars.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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This implies a poor Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 64.7% (vs. 19.0% for S&P 500).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Such methodology doesn’t necessarily align with the conventional approach for calculating tariffs and implies the U.S. would have looked at only the trade deficit in goods and ignored trade in services.—
Neelabh Chaturvedi, Asriel Chua,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2025
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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has been heralded as one of the most important prompting techniques.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Instead of relying on painful spinal taps and expensive brain scans, these blood tests are heralded as a new, less invasive and time-consuming way to determine risk and aid in an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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Many major insurers cover its services, and nationwide coverage is anticipated by the end of the year.—
Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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By Saturday evening as much as 10 to 12 inches of rain is anticipated across parts of the region.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 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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The White House foresees the automotive tariffs to generate $100 billion annually.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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The storms are foreseen to bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch).—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2025
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