Thesaurus results for FORESHADOW

foreshadow

verb

fȯr-ˈsha-(ˌ)dō

as in to prefigure

to give a slight indication of beforehand a series of small tremors that foreshadowed the massive earthquake the next day

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Recent Examples of foreshadow After Saturday’s game, Padres manager Craig Stammen kind of foreshadowed a second straight start at second base for Tatis. —

Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026 City officials have foreshadowed for months that the changes could be coming. —

Rose Evans april 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Apr. 2026 Trustees have yet to take a final vote on how to reduce the $181 million deficit, but with campus staff cuts, elementary arts programming and teacher stipends on the list of proposals, community members' swift backlash may foreshadow difficult conversations to come. —

Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026 City projections recently presented to the Irvine City Council foreshadowed a $6 million deficit that could double or even triple by 2028. —

Victoria Le, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreshadow

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That prefigured, in a much smaller and less consequential way, Iran’s own actions in blocking the Strait of Hormuz during the current crisis.

— Ioana Emy Matesan, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
The horror has come now like a storm— what if this night prefigured the night after death— what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the world just ahead.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026