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foregone

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verb

past participle of forego
as in preceded
to go or come before in time if the sparse crowds are any indication of the public's interest in the presidential candidate, then his reputation obviously foregoes him

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Adjective
  • To view the list of past winners, visit the Mega Millions website.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 11 May 2025
  • With the series shifting to Madison Square Garden and the road team in a 2-0 hole, percentages from past NBA seven-game series gave the Celtics just a 14.3% chance to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.
    Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • The search for reinforcements — whether through free agency or the draft — preceded the Philadelphia Eagles delivering a knockout blow on Kansas City’s three-peat.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Clemson Defensive coordinator Tom Allen The domino that preceded Penn State’s hiring of Knowles was Clemson luring Allen away from the Nittany Lions.
    Ralph D. Russo, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • More than any of his movie star peers, Cruise seems aware that someone has to symbolize an increasingly bygone era of filmmaking, to be this century’s Charlie Chaplin.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
  • Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news When arsenic is mentioned, many people associate it with a bygone poison.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Manfred, like other MLB commissioners before him, had rejected Rose’s petitions for reinstatement while the erstwhile slugger was still alive.
    Chris Branch, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • Radcliffe will play Arthur Tobin, an award-winning filmmaker who moves into Reggie's mansion to shoot an immersive documentary about the erstwhile star athlete.
    Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Court records show three of the burglary charges are from Seminole County and the two other burglary charges, along with the petit theft charge, are from a Volusia County warrant.
    Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2025
  • Because the fire is in a residential area, fighting the fire has strained the immediate water grid, Wallace said, leading the department to bring in water from other, larger water mains.
    Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Douglas Brick, a former student at the University of Utah, disappeared on Oct. 12, 1973, according to information from police and the school in Salt Lake City.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Even if Rodgers doesn’t sign with Pittsburgh, new Jets quarterback Justin Fields will be facing his former team.
    Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2025
  • The fang gang present themselves as yearning European folk enthusiasts and later as jigging fiends and sometime metalheads.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The situation has gotten so bleak that Hollywood is now being compared to Detroit — a onetime industrial powerhouse now struggling to reinvent itself.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2025
  • His childhood friend–slash–onetime extramarital hookup, Nora, is back in the hospital with an infected graft, and her condition seems to get worse by the minute.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 9 May 2025
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“Foregone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foregone. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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