Thesaurus results for FORESHADOW

foreshadow

verb

fȯr-ˈsha-(ˌ)dō

Definition of foreshadow

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 This also foreshadows the difficult reality that our talent model must evolve in tandem. — Rachel Proffitt, Fortune, 23 June 2026 Moore’s wartime Shelter Drawings depict families sheltering in the London Underground during air raids, while foreshadowing the abstract, organic forms of his later sculpture. — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 This spring, xAI struck a deal to give Cursor access to its compute infrastructure, foreshadowing similar, larger deals with Anthropic and Google in the future. — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026 The final photo in the carousel was of an elderly couple standing side by side and looking out at the water, perhaps foreshadowing Lovato and Lutes growing old together. — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreshadow

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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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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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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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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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The storms are foreseen to bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch).

— NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2026
The accelerating rotation is fast enough, however, that timekeepers foresee the need for the first ever negative leap second—which could cause unknown and potentially catastrophic infrastructure problems.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 July 2026

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