as in to predict
to give a slight indication of beforehand
a series of small tremors that foreshadowed the massive earthquake the next day
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Recent Examples of foreshadow
His background foreshadows working with his hands.
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Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Both players’ scathing assessment of Richardson foreshadowed a roller coaster 2024 campaign that was a lot more down than up.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2025
Hungary was the race that foreshadowed their rivalry one year ago.
—Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
Yesterday, the administration foreshadowed cutting all remaining federal funds to Harvard.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2025
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Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Both players’ scathing assessment of Richardson foreshadowed a roller coaster 2024 campaign that was a lot more down than up.
—James Boyd, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2025
Hungary was the race that foreshadowed their rivalry one year ago.
—Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
Yesterday, the administration foreshadowed cutting all remaining federal funds to Harvard.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadow
Verb
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At one point in the early 1980s, amid economic downturns, program trustees predicted a shortfall was months away.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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The greater Nashville market is outperforming some larger metros and countering national headlines predicting a struggling housing market.—
Collyn Wainwright,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Andersen’s story may have prefigured this moment, although no major actor in the war wants to be the boy.—
MICHAEL KIMMAGE,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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This early embrace of mechanical rhythm prefigured what would later become a foundation of hip-hop and electronic music.—
Jose Valentino Ruiz,
The Conversation,
13 June 2025
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The palate walks a pleasant line between tart and sweet, the latter class of flavors implied by association more than any actual detectable sweetness.—
David Thomas Tao,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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As their name implies, pygmy sperm whales are much smaller than their sperm whale relatives, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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The reaction was limited as investors reasoned that the recent ADP data was weak enough for the Federal Reserve to justify a September rate cut, but not soft enough to herald a recession.—
Sean Conlon,Sarah Min,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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Vintage toys, tools, and grocery items share space with a second-floor book nook heralded by a cardboard cutout of Dolly Parton.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
1 Sep. 2025
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Many had anticipated Sand would seek the governorship, launching his bid for the seat almost exactly one month after Reynolds announced her retirement.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Sep. 2025
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Treasury anticipates issuing additional guidance on what exactly will fall under this carve-out.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.—
Philip Kennicott,
Washington Post,
18 Oct. 2019
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Nothing in America’s tepid 19th-century contributions to European classical music adumbrated it; nor did the homely and sometimes hokey popular songs of Stephen Foster.—
Heather Mac Donald,
National Review,
22 Aug. 2019
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But Intel failed to foresee the explosion of the smartphone industry in the 2010s and then the artificial intelligence revolution a decade later.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The commotion has come as a surprise to Cooke, who didn’t foresee her role as such a divisive one.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Foreshadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshadow. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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