foretokening

present participle of foretoken

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretokening
Verb
  • Wearables have been reading the human body for more than a decade, counting steps, monitoring heart rate and alerting users when something seems off.
    Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
  • The campaign also stresses that the sirens are geared toward people who are outside during extreme weather, alerting them to seek shelter, Cagann said.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Weather Service are cautioning people to be careful.
    Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 29 June 2026
  • Security experts are cautioning football fans against using team or player names in their passwords, particularly during the ongoing World Cup.
    Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • In retrospect, this sounds like foreshadowing … or at least a good omen.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 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
Verb
  • To help with visualizing a standard pour of wine, five ounces is a little more than a 1/2 cup of liquid.
    Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 27 June 2026
  • Although all of the data used to create the Explorer is publicly available, the process of synthesizing and visualizing it required technical expertise.
    Madeleine Kashkooli, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • Jiang gradually assembled the property parcel by parcel before envisioning it as a residential community.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 June 2026
  • After hearing friends’ experiences and recognizing her own lingering fear, Bounds began envisioning a prevention product with herself — and women like her — in mind.
    Lucy Glynn, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • James alerted the Lakers with enough forewarning before free agency officially begins on Tuesday evening about his future plans.
    Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • According to Davidson, the BAFTAs did give the crowd some forewarning about his tics.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Gufram and Snarkitecture’s Sculpted Mirror In envisaging the Sculpted Mirror for Gufram, Snarkitecture founders designers Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham carefully studied the theme of reflective surfaces.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 11 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • But predicting how things will change decades from now is a more daunting task than embracing a gauzy promise.
    Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, 3 July 2026
  • That’s why Jim had been stepping up his calls for Meta to start a cloud business , predicting the struggling stock would soar in response.
    Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 3 July 2026
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“Foretokening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretokening. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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