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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Her subsequent album, Faster Than The Speed of Night, produced by Meat Loaf producer Jim Steinman, was the first album by a female artist to debut at number one in Britain, and heralded a new rock style for her.

— Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026
The former is heralded with a blast of horns; the latter guards its inner sanctum behind Tobie Windham’s officious sentry.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of herald

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Roberts’s quip foreshadowed his opinion on behalf of the Court holding that near-universal birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the text of the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship clause.

— Amanda Frost, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
As Sam Khan wrote yesterday, the SWC also foreshadowed the future of college football.

— Chris Branch, New York Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of foreshadow

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Before a ball was even kicked at this tournament, many people predicted this semifinal matchup when filling in their bracket.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 10 July 2026
Key features of PocketGuard PocketGuard has several key features that help customers manage their money, track spending, and predict future spending.

— Catherine Collins, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Definition of predict

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Thousands of apartments have gone on the market in the last couple of years, and there are more in the pipeline, though fewer projects are anticipated in the future.

— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2026
The country is investing in more hotels and attractions in capital city Ulaanbaatar, anticipating that number will go up in the years to come.

— Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 11 July 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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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
Over the course of one phantasmagoric evening, Robin witnesses events that prefigure the Revolutionary War.

— John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026

Definition of prefigure

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