foreboders

noun

plural of foreboder
as in foreshadowers

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  1. forerunners
  2. precursors
  3. harbingers
  4. heralds
  5. outriders
  6. angels
  7. announcers
  8. messengers
Noun
  • Rather than try to replicate his forerunners’ styles of success, Ternus has so far played to his own strengths—which are also those of Apple, a company that first and foremost builds beautiful products that spark productivity, creativity, and joy.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Margaret and Alice are the forerunners of Lucy and Ethel, and Shakespeare’s comedy, written expressly to entertain, gives us a sense of what an Elizabethan-era situation comedy might look like.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
Definition of forerunners
Noun
  • Ng, who is Jo Henderson’s oncologist, noted that her previous research found that women who ate more ultraprocessed foods had a higher risk of colon polyps that can be precursors to cancer.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The coal and steel organization was the first among European institutions that were precursors to what eventually became the European Union.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of precursors
Noun
  • Related What were once blips on the modern music timeline now feel like harbingers of things to come for 2027.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Culture and History Crows and ravens have similarly eerie reputations as spooky harbingers of death or danger.
    — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of harbingers
Noun
  • This increasingly seamless connection between runway collections and store stock heralds a new meaning for commercial, repositioning the role of the runway.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The project heralds from Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors behind 2025 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of heralds
Noun
  • His deputies and outriders are not quite so deft.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Churchill Downs outriders, jockey agents, jockeys Florent Geroux and Julian Leperoux, as well as members of Lukas' barn staff also sat in the crowd.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Aug. 2025
Definition of outriders
Noun
  • The woman understood from her hasty reading that perhaps all miracles could be attributed to saints and angels if they were experienced by a believer.
    — Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Every nightfall is different — different seasonal colors, angels, weather, celestial glows, grasses and shadows.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of angels
Noun
  • With two of Fox’s NFL announcers working MLB playoff series (thus moving Chris Myers up to a different team), the network will use Charlotte Hornets TV voice Eric Collins with Mark Schlereth on Sunday’s Dolphins-Bengals game.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Many top announcers’ contracts are expected to lapse after the end of this season, including not only Aikman’s, but Greg Olsen at Fox, and Al Michaels at Amazon.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of announcers
Noun
  • The medications work by blocking certain chemical messengers in the part of the brain that regulates body temperature and manages sleep/wake cycles, according to the guidance.
    — Shannon Firth, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
  • According to the brand, the cream’s proprietary N|A3 technology limits the amount of stress cortisol in the skin while boosting its chemical well-being messengers.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of messengers
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