Thesaurus results for FORERUN

forerun

verb

fȯr-ˈrən

Definition of forerun

as in to herald

to give a slight indication of beforehand the moral decay that traditionally foreruns the decline of a mighty empire

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But rather than the usual micro-adjustments, the platform’s announcement of Features — allowing creators to upload horizontal videos of up to 90 minutes — heralds a more radical shift.

— Annie Corser, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
Written and produced by Luc Besson, the film heralds from director Barthélémy Grossmann.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of herald

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On the title track Chen reaches for the psaltery (a kind of zither without frets), creating a meandering, medieval atmosphere whose ubiquitous electronic background buzz foreshadows the biting screams and blistering bass to come.

— James Gui, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2026
Weeks before the election, the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC allied with House Speaker Mike Johnson, shifted resources away from Kean's race to other critical contests, foreshadowing the 7th District outcome.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of foreshadow

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In theory, testing virtual designs will cut down development cycles, predict equipment degradation, and avoid costly trial-and-error during physical builds.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
Pollsters have been predicting some GOP losses and in late October, CBS News' polling suggested Republicans could be on track to lose control of the House.

— S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of predict

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The $250 Ring Drone Camera offers exactly what the product’s name implies — the technology to capture moving images from a lens affixed to a small quadcopter drone, according to the company.

— David K. Li, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2026
The underlying implication in much of the criticism was that non-Equity shows are subpar and that hosting them implies a tacit acceptance of the mistreatment of actors.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of imply

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These will include a next generation of landers the agency anticipates needing once humans have started to return to the moon regularly.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2026
But there were delays that set back their timetable for opening, including significantly more repair work than originally anticipated.

— Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of anticipate

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In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.

— Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
Nothing in America’s tepid 19th-century contributions to European classical music adumbrated it; nor did the homely and sometimes hokey popular songs of Stephen Foster.

— Heather Mac Donald, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019

Definition of adumbrate

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On the city’s West Side, the site of storied clubs such as Silvio’s as well as the Maxwell Street Market, blues musicians developed a style of electric blues in the 1950s that typically included a horn section (prefiguring soul music).

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Other Black families tried to hold on under the new regime but ultimately found Wilmington untenable and moved north, joining a local exodus that prefigured the Great Migration.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026

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