Thesaurus results for ADUMBRATES

adumbrates

verb

present tense third-person singular of adumbrate

as in implies

to give a slight indication of beforehand the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow

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As the name implies, EPR extends responsibility to producers.

— Erin Victor, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
Better yet, a falling price implies a rising price elsewhere or the introduction to the market of even more expensive goods formerly unknown, unimaginable, or both.

— John Tamny, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Back in King’s Landing, Rhaenyra comes to find that her prisoner Helaena has taken her own life but left a parting gift for the queen that foreshadows a potential prophecy of Rhaenyra’s path towards madness.

— Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2026
The piece foreshadows Saar’s penchant for transforming common items into near-mystical objects with seemingly simple flourishes that belie complex themes.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026

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The Kamm tail, with its upturned spoiler and flat panel adorned with Ferrari’s signature twin round taillights, is a nod to aerodynamics that prefigures the shape of the Lusso’s spiritual successor, the 275 GTB.

— Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2026
Tragedy strikes many times in this decades-spanning story, in many forms, but the defining event of Grainier’s life sees his home burned to the ground, an event that eerily prefigures the LA fires of early 2025.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025

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Shotwell said SpaceX's existing infrastructure can't support the number or cadence of Starship launches the company anticipates reaching, and tied Starbase Louisiana to SpaceX's long-term goal of using Starship to make human life interplanetary.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
For that reason, NASA anticipates that Roman will image more than 50 times as much of the sky in the next five years as Hubble covered in three decades.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of anticipates

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The project heralds from writer-director Adam Sigal, writer-director of Simon Pegg comedy-thriller Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose and producer on 2024 sci-fi Slingshot with Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026
For these locations, June’s solstice — which heralds astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere — is the winter solstice, not the summer solstice.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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