as in implies
to give a slight indication of beforehand
the moral decay that traditionally foreruns the decline of a mighty empire
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The Liverpool book, King’s biography implies, was part of a painful, covert search for a different way to write.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026 -
That implies that the stock could plunge 70%.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
27 Jan. 2026
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But the Opta supercomputer predicts that Qarabag will finish 20th, with Atletico, City and Barcelona sneaking into the top eight over PSG, Newcastle and Chelsea.—
Eduardo Tansley,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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And in 2023 DeepMind released AlphaMissense, another AI tool that predicts how mutations in the regions of the genome that do generate proteins affect gene function.—
Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
28 Jan. 2026
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The move foreshadows a mandate on purchasing domestic AI silicon, according to a report from The Information.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
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The film smartly foreshadows what will befall Alma and Maggie and Hank.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Foreruns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreruns. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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