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as in feels
a feeling that something bad will happen
I had a nagging presage that the results of my medical tests would not be good
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as in heralds
something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event
the sight of the first robin is always a welcome presage of spring
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as in predicts
to tell of or describe beforehand
people used to believe that a comet presaged a major event, such as the death of a king
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Recent Examples of presages
John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
The question facing Federal Reserve policymakers, who will meet next week, is whether the employment numbers presages a broader slump.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presages
Noun
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This one will give you all the feels and some hard-hitting action.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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By the time Megan seizes control of the reins at the film’s close, the abrupt denouement feels jarringly disconnected rather than organic to the storytelling.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Pic heralds from Deadpool and John Wick director David Leitch and Bullet Train producer Kelly McCormick’s 87North, and Bill Bindley and Mike Karz’s Gulfstream Pictures (Upgraded), which financed the movie.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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Thy Kingdom Come’s entrance heralds 10 total appearances for the album’s tracks on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.—
Trevor Anderson,
Billboard,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Vanguard predicts small-cap stocks will rise 5% to 7% annually over the next 10 years.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives predicts iPhone preorders will increase five to 10% compared to last year since the firm estimates 20% of global iPhone owners haven’t upgraded in the past four years.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Today’s ReHeardle hints and answers for Friday, September 19 are coming right up.—
Kris Holt,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The Smart Stack, which offers a customizable list of widgets and updates them automatically based on your current activity and location, now shows hints on the watch face to highlight particularly timely suggestions, like enabling Do Not Disturb when a meeting on your calendar is about to start.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Powell himself has previously weighed in on the AI jobs debate, which saw predictions of a 50% wipeout of white-collar jobs and a fourth industrial revolution creating a bounty of new positions, by staking out a middle position.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
17 Sep. 2025
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While crypto trading has a steep learning curve, anyone with a wallet can start trading predictions without any esoteric expertise.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Many are anticipating words of wisdom or premonitions from Masaryk, perhaps a warning about the impending war or the threat coming from Russia.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
17 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, their many years together reveal themselves as the vital heart of Romano’s own artistic output, as scattered throughout these pages appear pieces of her earlier books and, especially, poems, which come to assume the aura of dreamlike premonitions.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As portents go, after a testing summer for Newcastle, this did not look altogether positive.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Other auspicious portents are appearing, Worden says, that signal initial Mars colonies could begin spreading out, beneath crystalline hemispheric domes, across the 2030s.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The bad omens came early at this year’s Burning Man — the infamously wild, weeklong celebration of art, music, and unrestrained self-expression held at the end of every summer in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — portending a particularly extra-ordinary burn.—
Denver Nicks,
Rolling Stone,
14 Sep. 2025
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In the final novel of the series, The Last Battle, the destruction of trees and dryads in Lantern Waste, a place tied to the creation of Narnia itself, is one of many portentous omens signalling the end of the world.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Presages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presages. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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