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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
  • Performing tracks from past albums as well as a bulk of the songs from her Grammy-winning, Billboard 200-topping album Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé kicked off about three months of touring with her show at SoFi.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Glasnow left his past two starts due to separate physical maladies.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 29 Apr. 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
  • And while those other examples may be from a bygone era of joyful abandon, the current moment leaves a lot to be desired.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Apr. 2025
  • From the darkened facade to the seven-meter-tall ceilings to the cobblestones that cover Mercer Street, every detail sits at the periphery of both modernity and an unreachable bygone era, much like the label itself.
    Brett Braley, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That Horan yearns for the Fed to centrally plan an absurd creation of statist economists (GDP), prices, income, and employment more broadly is yet another disturbing lurch by an erstwhile free-market crowd that brevity disallows discussion of for now.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The team is also working on restoring the habitat across the island, which was stripped of all its vegetation during its time as an erstwhile guano mining spot.
    Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Let your words be intentional and your thoughts be clear—especially when involving other people into your mental maze.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 May 2025
  • Sign up for the Goings On newsletter to receive their selections, and other cultural recommendations, in your inbox.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Under former President Joe Biden, monthly student loan bills resumed in the fall of 2023 after a years-long break.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • For years, the scientific output (patents, publications, commercial innovations) from former Soviet scientists decreased dramatically with a long-lasting negative impact on today’s Russian economy.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Berninger made the album with co-producer and sometime co-writer Sean O’Brien.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Kennedy’s close friend and sometime co-counsel Michael Tigar wrote in his own biography that Timothy later pointed a finger at Kennedy, calling him the mastermind, in order to seek revenge after their future falling-out.
    Susannah Cahalan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Since the 2008 global economic downturn, our under-resourced museums, no longer buoyed by onetime blockbuster exhibitions, have come to rely more on revenue generated by repeat visitation.
    Eric Crosby, Artforum, 1 May 2025
  • Alonso put me in touch with Ronald Chatman, a onetime member of a Bloods subset in L.A. who subsequently worked in the Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Foregone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foregone. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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