as in to prefigure
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
This also foreshadows the difficult reality that our talent model must evolve in tandem.
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Rachel Proffitt,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Moore’s wartime Shelter Drawings depict families sheltering in the London Underground during air raids, while foreshadowing the abstract, organic forms of his later sculpture.
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Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
This spring, xAI struck a deal to give Cursor access to its compute infrastructure, foreshadowing similar, larger deals with Anthropic and Google in the future.
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Samuel Axon,
ArsTechnica,
16 June 2026
The final photo in the carousel was of an elderly couple standing side by side and looking out at the water, perhaps foreshadowing Lovato and Lutes growing old together.
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Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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Rachel Proffitt,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
Moore’s wartime Shelter Drawings depict families sheltering in the London Underground during air raids, while foreshadowing the abstract, organic forms of his later sculpture.
—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
This spring, xAI struck a deal to give Cursor access to its compute infrastructure, foreshadowing similar, larger deals with Anthropic and Google in the future.
—
Samuel Axon,
ArsTechnica,
16 June 2026
The final photo in the carousel was of an elderly couple standing side by side and looking out at the water, perhaps foreshadowing Lovato and Lutes growing old together.
—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for foreshadow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadow
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Other Black families tried to hold on under the new regime but ultimately found Wilmington untenable and moved north, joining a local exodus that prefigured the Great Migration.
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Over the course of one phantasmagoric evening, Robin witnesses events that prefigure the Revolutionary War.
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Susan Del Percio, a New York GOP strategist, predicted the dueling programs would excite the different constituencies of the two leaders.
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But predicting how things will change decades from now is a more daunting task than embracing a gauzy promise.
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Barclays in June raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 7,800 – implying a gain of 4% across the next six months.
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Many modern brides now wear different outfits for the ceremony and reception, and reporting from Page Six implies that Swift will follow suit.
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The housing package was heralded as a win by both Republicans and Democrats, who are eager to campaign on the legislation ahead of the 2026 midterms in which voters have serious concerns about the cost of living.
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There will also be random utility players and less-than-heralded bullpen arms included to fill out the roster.
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Some fans will have purchased alternative plane tickets and booked extra hotel nights, anticipating a change that never came.
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Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro is anticipated to be more expensive, potentially by $200, driven by rising memory and storage costs.
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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.
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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.
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The survey is an indicator of companies foreseeing good conditions minus those feeling pessimistic.
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To say legislators should have foreseen this result is shooting fish.
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This could harbinger a new age of electro-tech in Asia.
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“Foreshadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshadow. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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