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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The re-release also heralds the studio’s shift into the short film space.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025 -
Autumn has draped itself across the northern hemisphere, heralding the onset of longer, darker nights that serve as the perfect backdrop for amateur astronomers looking to explore the wonders of the night sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Lee notes that several AI companies have already indicated their ability to flag user activity that appears to foreshadow a crime.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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Tellingly, these names belonged to a deceased mother and son, foreshadowing that Willa will eventually become a kind of parent to Bob.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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At the same time, the Federal Reserve’s shift back to rate cuts amid still-solid economic growth should continue to boost to the dollar, which will likely shrug off tariff threats, Brown predicted.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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The event, the most disputed of the festival, marked the Rio premiere of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s thriller and saw Wagner Moura — predicted by Variety’s very own Clayton Davis to land a Best Actor nomination — spearhead a healthy list of cast and crew at the screening.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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The Friends alum also spoke about how the tabloids implying her personal timeline for starting a family wasn’t true.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Oct. 2025
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Like the show's moniker implies, Bravo fans can expect plenty of hilarious, self-deprecating references to Bateman's time on RHOSLC.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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Big-box retailers are stocking up ahead of the holidays, anticipating that demand will extend beyond traditional toy buyers like children and collectors.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
18 Oct. 2025
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The think tank also set out to create shadow versions of the OMB and of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to anticipate legal challenges and counter internal pushback.—
Andy Kroll,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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These opulent volumes prefigure the label’s high jewelry offering.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 2025
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Your 2018 book, The Lies That Bind, seems to have prefigured the backlash against a certain way of talking about identity—as essential or at least fixed—that was prevalent in the 2010s.—
Lula Konner,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Oct. 2025
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