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boding

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verb

present participle of bode

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boding
Noun
  • Embedded with other Prodigy troops — who first examine some Maginot crew corpses and then leap between busted stairwells to get clear from the ship’s wreckage — the medic seems to be living through one of those restless, unsettling dreams where nothing quite matches up and dark omens predominate.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There are plenty of good omens for Bayern despite the immense quality of their opponents.
    Darren Richman, New York Times, 5 July 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
Noun
  • This would turn out to be a portent of what was to come.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The rise in the PCE inflation rate yesterday, to 2.8% over the past year (excluding food and energy), is a portent of price increases to come.
    Harry Holzer, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • German missile designers launched their V2 rocket for the first time—the forerunner of the ICBM that would blitz the United Kingdom—and Berlin’s Luftwaffe dominated European skies.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • His band may be forerunners in this respect, but Allen recognizes that the attention is paying off for all of his Alabama contemporaries.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • This may be a precursor to Apple introducing smart glasses.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2025
  • These types of civil demands are typically a precursor to litigation, which Rokita has floated as a possibility.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Andrew Skeet and Nathan Klein’s orchestral original score sets an appropriate tone of mournful foreboding.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 June 2025
  • Early in President Donald Trump’s second term, European leaders and many U.S. defense and security experts were anticipating this week’s NATO summit with foreboding.
    Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The key question investors and the Fed are trying to answer is whether this slight slackening presages a far worse outlook, even a recession, or whether reports of rising uncertainty merely reflect people’s feelings, not economic reality.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2025
  • The result is chaos, bewilderment and delay that presages rising consumer prices.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a foreshadowing of what her later critics would call her victim-blaming, Ms. Brownmiller argued that Ms. Nussbaum was not a passive victim and should have been held partly accountable for the girl’s death.
    Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 26 May 2025
  • Was that foreshadowing of a win for the 25-year-old New York nurse (and Bryan)?
    Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 13 July 2025
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“Boding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boding. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.

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