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noun

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verb

variants also forboding
present participle of forebode

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Recent Examples of foreboding
Adjective
For those who oppose Trump’s policies, this is what makes Trump’s second term more foreboding than the first. Russell Muirhead, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025 An ember doesn’t choose its path based on property value or paparazzi presence, and when one part of Los Angeles burns, foreboding smoke hangs over the whole metro area. Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
His aunts offered us tortillas to warm our hands while his uncle expressed dark forebodings about our chances of success. Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024 In his images of the World Trade Center, the passage of time has once again added to his foreboding. Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for foreboding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreboding
Adjective
  • But by reciting the proposal again and again, Trump might be setting in motion very real—and extremely ominous—consequences for the West Bank and the entire region.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The historian Janis Mimura saw something more ominous: a new, proactive union of industry and governmental power, wherein the state would drive aggressive industrial policy at the expense of liberal norms.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • From bulbous shoes with upturned vamps to pleated pants puffed away from the body, the collection’s doll-like garments took on a larger-than-life feel.
    Elizabeth Grace Coyne, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • All these sensory details are Volvo's expertise, giving its vehicles a premium feel.
    Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the second, her name was positioned next to a woman watching a monkey on a chain from her window, an unwelcome portent for Tanya.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Jellyfish scrape along the sea floor like spindly mushroom clouds of portent, stinging Sofia who masochistically (and in a way that carries over to her actual human relationships) keeps going back for another dip.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Filming their every outspoken thought and conversation whether in the newsroom, at home, on the street or in cars driving around frigid Moscow, the director channels the growing sense of dread as the government crackdown accelerates and the war nears.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Read More: Scientists Debate Why Childbirth is So Brutal Epidural Risks and Research Unfortunately, myths and out-of-date information continue to inspire fear and dread of the procedure.
    Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 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
  • Deepfakes first attracted attention for its use in making fake celebrity pornographic films, but their uses have subsequently evolved to more sinister reasons.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Columbia Pictures When Bobbie also suddenly transforms, Joanna discovers that her best friend has been replaced by a robot—along with all the other wives—and realizes the sinister forces at work in Stepford are coming for her next.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The movie’s terrifying dénouement emerges in another seven-minute shot, in which hints and premonitions are transformed into passions and horrors and in which landscape—and, as per the title, a seascape—appear not simply as backdrops but as dramatic and intellectual engines of the story.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Final Destination 5 begins with Sam Lawton (Nicholas D'Agosto) saving his co-worker's lives (and ruining their work retreat) after having a premonition about a bridge collapse.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In 1914, Frank Newman opened the Royal Theatre which was a forerunner to movie palaces in the city, a significant departure from nickelodeons.
    Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Hammond, the school’s forerunner, won its fourth straight 3A sectional title in 2008.
    Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025

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“Foreboding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreboding. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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