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foreboding

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noun

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foreboding

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verb

variants also forboding
present participle of forebode

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of foreboding
Adjective
As well as that, there's a foreboding shot of Galactus casting his considerable shadow over New York City. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025 Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
But they are also weighted with foreboding, especially as Carter asks her to perform stranger acts. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025 Mid- to late-cycle expansions don’t need to draw fuel from a deep reservoir of fear and foreboding, the way early-cycle recoveries do. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for foreboding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreboding
Adjective
  • The fall in the dollar and rise in bond yields that went with it have been truly ominous.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • If the sky turns ominous and thunder can be heard, find a secure place for shelter.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Plants a few miles away and has filled the apartment with enormous trees in ceramic pots, giving the rooms a bohemian feel.
    Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Designed to give a modern feel to your entertainment setup, this TV stand is made from solid pine and comes in two different wood finishes.
    Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the attacks could have been interpreted very differently: as a horrific case of blowback and a portent of resistance to U.S. hegemony.
    Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Weinstein’s thuggish joke was just one portent of the edgy, borderline sinister air that permeated the party from the very beginning.
    Scott Huver, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • When the slasher eventually appears, stealing the group’s car before murdering them with a humorous bluntness, there is also a real atmosphere of dread.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But his ailment looked to be grave enough to warrant dread.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • As one manifestation of Carter’s commitment, his administration began to oppose loans from international financial institutions to rights-abusing governments, promising to provide financial support only after these countries demonstrated concrete improvements on human rights.
    Michael Posner, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Was Knies’ promising rookie season not necessarily a sign of things to come?
    Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Or, more likely, The Sentry is simply the benevolent mirror image of that shadowy, sinister entity that emerges after Bob Reynolds ingests a super serum.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • However, what was happening behind the scenes was more sinister than what the public thought.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, VistaVision was the forerunner of IMAX 65mm, with its horizontal orientation.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The company plans to recreate the mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, by editing the genome of each species’ closest living relative to make a hybrid animal that would be visually indistinguishable from its extinct forerunner.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Trump's remarks came as he's started to soften his tone with China regarding tariffs, which have rattled the global markets and stoked anxieties about the economy.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • While immediate inflation concerns have eased, the current administration’s assertive tariff policies are reigniting these anxieties, potentially leading to future economic instability.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025

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“Foreboding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreboding. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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