as in portent
something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event
some people still believe that a black cat crossing your path is a bad omen
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Recent Examples of omen
Trump has had experience with the omens special elections can carry.
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Susan Page, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
In a further good omen for Cleveland, the Celtics went on to win the title that year.
—Matias Grez, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
History suggests multiple delays can be a bad omen for video games, but that’s not always the case.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
The phrase comes from a book written by a pastor, who claimed that beginning in April 2014, a series of four consecutive lunar eclipses — all coinciding with Jewish holidays, with six full moons in between and no intervening partial lunar eclipses — was an omen of the end times.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2025
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Susan Page, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
In a further good omen for Cleveland, the Celtics went on to win the title that year.
—Matias Grez, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
History suggests multiple delays can be a bad omen for video games, but that’s not always the case.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
The phrase comes from a book written by a pastor, who claimed that beginning in April 2014, a series of four consecutive lunar eclipses — all coinciding with Jewish holidays, with six full moons in between and no intervening partial lunar eclipses — was an omen of the end times.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for omen
Noun
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Thus, the negative GDP change should not be taken as a portent of looming disaster.—
Bill Conerly,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Unbeknown to player and club, the transfer carried portents of the sombre fate that awaited him.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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The forerunner of today’s sleek MacBook laptops was the PowerBook.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
11 June 2025
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Frederick Ashton’s for the Sadler’s Wells Ballet (the forerunner of the Royal Ballet) in 1952, with a resplendent Margot Fonteyn in the title role, put the ballet back into the mainstream repertory, though it wasn’t performed by the Royal from the mid-1960s to 2004.—
Roslyn Sulcas,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Work with technical teams to explore the distinctions between tools and agents; deterministic and probabilistic outcomes; and optimization, prediction and generative AI.—
Lucas Persona,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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But attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend the festival and parade.—
Lolita C. Baldor,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2025
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If EVs are any augury, America’s days at technology’s vanguard might be numbered.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
29 May 2025
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These signs seem to confirm Sahm’s augury that the economy remains healthy.—
David Thomas,
Forbes,
16 Oct. 2024
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There was no foreshadowing of Triston Casas’ season-ending knee injury on May 3 or Bregman’s severe quad injury on May 23, one that will keep him out for several weeks.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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The document, seen by Newsweek, suggested Meghan had been left unprotected while pregnant in a foreshadowing of her argument to Oprah Winfrey less than a year later.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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By World Health Organization (WHO) standards established in 1994, this designates a person as having osteopenia — often a precursor to osteoporosis.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
4 June 2025
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Leverton said trends like western, cottagecore, Americana and conservative styles of dress, in general, were precursors to where things were the U.S. presidential election was heading last year.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
30 May 2025
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The result is chaos, bewilderment and delay that presages rising consumer prices.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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There’s a kind of implicit prayer in this that the withering of today’s Hollywood system is a presage for something better, giving the entire production a painful, nostalgic quality that tugs at your chest even as what unfolds before you is remarkably dumb.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2025
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The shade brings a quiet elegance to any room, a hint of whimsy, and a reputation for serenity thanks to its namesake plant.—
Lauren Jones,
Southern Living,
14 June 2025
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What is a hint in the novel becomes a horror onscreen when Fanny discovers sketchbooks showing sadistic scenes of plantation life.—
Marina Harss,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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“Omen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/omen. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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