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noun

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verb

variants also forboding
present participle of forebode

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of foreboding
Adjective
The Season 2 finale keeps the characters in Seattle but with more foreboding aesthetics. Daron James, IndieWire, 27 May 2025 There’s nonetheless a difference between vibey vagueness that creates an air of foreboding mystique and fuzziness that obscures key aspects of character and story. Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2025
Noun
His artworks, which include paintings, sculptures, mixed-media assemblages, mosaics, photographs, and film, are full of mood and foreboding. Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Mar. 2025 Even the objective comedy of this storyline is framed with foreboding, like the water gun fight. Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025
Verb
Despite the seemingly sweet resolution to their storyline (and an ostensibly upbeat last line of dialogue), there’s a strange undercurrent to the Nagisa and Natsuo segment that suggests foreboding as much as potential happiness — a mysterious tension befitting the creator that Miyake is adapting. Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreboding
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreboding
Adjective
  • Stay vigilant by monitoring the sky for ominous signs and listening for the telltale sound of thunder.
    Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Headlines about Social Security are equally ominous.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This multi-tasking innovation, which is boosted with five skincare ingredients, won over testers with its lightweight and luxurious feel.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The company plans to hire local operators to run the space, which will hopefully give the brewery more of a neighborhood feel.
    Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Keane, though, sees nothing but disaster ahead, a portent presaged by some of the film’s most enduring images, like a stretch limo with a flat tire and a steam room littered with empty champagne bottles.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • As portents go, after a testing summer for Newcastle, this did not look altogether positive.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Wax Child is about the dread of living in brutal hierarchies, and the shapes that friendship and protection take to counteract these grim realities.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But on a day when Mizzou amassed 595 total yards, converted 4 of 5 fourth downs and got an excellent effort from first-year starting quarterback Beau Pribula, surrendering possession had to fill Kansas followers with a sense of dread.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While these steps are promising, the OIG emphasized that temporary surge staff and policy memos are not enough.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • While terminology changes and treatment advances are promising, experts note that broader systemic and societal changes could make the biggest difference.
    Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Normally, that would be a recipe for some edge-of-your-seat action, although Ben Hopkins’ script makes clear early on that the bomb is just a distraction, while an even more sinister plot is ticking within the blast radius.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
  • However, when Jess senses something sinister and then mysteriously disappears, Frida must uncover the truth before meeting the same fate.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All of this terrified his father, Charlie, a former cop who had a premonition that something would go wrong.
    Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, their many years together reveal themselves as the vital heart of Romano’s own artistic output, as scattered throughout these pages appear pieces of her earlier books and, especially, poems, which come to assume the aura of dreamlike premonitions.
    Brian Robert Moore September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The reactor is the forerunner to the Aalo Pod, a 50-megawatt modular power plant designed specifically for data centers.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Bittler has been with Paramount (and its forerunner Viacom) for some 25 years, most recently as executive vp communications for the company’s kids and family division, including Nickelodeon, Awesomeness and kids and family series at Paramount+.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2025

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“Foreboding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreboding. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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