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The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025 -
Is this a foretaste of the next four years?—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Dec. 2024
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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That’s a really good indication that the marketing world, the advertising world is really where the audience is on the creator economy.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The Detroit automaker announced the plans Tuesday, as there have been few indications of progress in trade talks between the Trump administration and Mexican leaders.—
Michael Wayland,
CNBC,
10 June 2025
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The films are filled with little omens like this, both blatant and subtle — though usually blatant.—
Kellina Moore,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Such spectral doppelgängers stalk the living as grim omens of impending death.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 May 2025
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Early pregnancy symptoms can be intense as the body undergoes a huge transformation, with a surge in hormones often leading to fatigue, breathlessness and nausea.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
5 June 2025
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But despite the treatment, the woman began having seizures, subsequently dying eight days after symptoms began.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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Right now, the menu is filled with traditional American classics, but the breakfast and lunch croissant sandwiches are a harbinger of things to come when 88 Donuts gets up and rolling.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2025
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Paul then recalled an instance where The Studio actor came out of the production office and solemnly beckoned him to come over, a seeming harbinger of bad news.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
1 June 2025
Noun
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Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.—
Mark Cooper,
New York Times,
15 June 2025
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Quite simply, the Thunder had a closer in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Indiana looked like a team who had no clue which player to turn to.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 June 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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“Prefigurement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prefigurement. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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