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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There is a subtle shift in the balance – not just with the Italian flavor – although the series again opens with a moment of foreshadowing, with an unidentified body washing ashore at the idyllic seaside resort, before jumping back to the latest boat full of new arrivals.
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Dan Heching, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Liam then followed up with an analysis of how these two days of meetings foreshadow some challenging decisions ahead for Southern Baptists.
—Duane W. Gang, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025
Does this foreshadow a scene somewhere in the real world outside of the Lumon offices?
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Specifically, the credits now foreshadow particular moments that emerge over the course of the season: Look no further than the moment when innie Mark hobbles about a hilly grassland, which turns to be an actual milieu for a scene anchored by Gwendoline Christie in episode three.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
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Dan Heching, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025
Liam then followed up with an analysis of how these two days of meetings foreshadow some challenging decisions ahead for Southern Baptists.
—Duane W. Gang, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025
Does this foreshadow a scene somewhere in the real world outside of the Lumon offices?
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Specifically, the credits now foreshadow particular moments that emerge over the course of the season: Look no further than the moment when innie Mark hobbles about a hilly grassland, which turns to be an actual milieu for a scene anchored by Gwendoline Christie in episode three.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadow
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Women possessed by the gods were oracles, predicting the future in cryptic utterances.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Tremble didn’t have the 2024 season that many predicted.—
Alex Zietlow and,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2025
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The widescreen, 35mm format prefigured IMAX and other high-density imagery in a way that still stuns on screen.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
31 Jan. 2025
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The Page Act prefigured the near-total ban on Chinese immigration to the U.S. seven years later, with the Exclusion Act of 1882—the country’s first federal law to restrict a group on the basis of race.—
Jane Hu,
The New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2025
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This implies a very strong Debt-to-Equity Ratio of 2.8% (vs. 19.7% for S&P 500).—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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State of play: Shakers Public House posted a pair of Facebook videos — one featuring a man convicted of murder and a second defending the first — that viewers thought implied the establishment was using its Smoke Stack burger to fundraise for the man.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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The fruit was heralded as far back as the year 1279 as the preferred fruit of the royal court and emperors.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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In today’s fast-evolving world of digital product development, agile methodologies were once heralded as a groundbreaking approach to drive innovation, foster collaboration and deliver real value to customers.—
Federico Imparatta,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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But Kline said the scale of the warehouse is something that homeowners could never have anticipated.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2025
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Every organization anticipates retirements and resignations.—
Sherzod Odilov,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 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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Neither Churchill nor Mellon could foresee that the main beneficiary of a tottering world economy would eventually be Hitler.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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While there’s no crystal ball, many beauty companies, such as Unilever, foresee after a soft start to 2025 that the market will gain more traction in the second half of the year.—
Kathryn Hopkins,
WWD,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Foreshadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshadow. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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