foreboded

variants also forboded
past tense of forebode

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Verb
  • Tom Chittum, a former ATF Associate Deputy Director had predicted the single shot fired at Kirk indicated a bolt action rifle was used.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Primordial black holes, meanwhile, are theorized to be much more diminutive than even stellar mass black holes, with masses predicted to be anywhere from that of giant planets down to average-sized asteroids.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On Monday, the company promised huge upgrades after acquiring radio spectrum for BoostMobile’s parent, EchoStar, in a $17 billion deal to bolster the satellite network’s throughput.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Undergraduate institutions have long promised America’s young people opportunities to learn in cloistered conditions that are deliberately curated, anachronistic, and unrepresentative of work and life outside the quad.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Viral marketing tactics, coupled with strong social media word-of-mouth, boded well for both films’ success, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the data firm Comscore.
    Itzel Luna, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The title, which must be the most highly anticipated of the year, already has a cover and release date, but so far, the singer-songwriter has not shared any music from the project.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Six plays later, on third-and-10, Hurts anticipated Spagnuolo sending the house — and the Chiefs did.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Foreboded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreboded. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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