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
Earlier poem-scrolls appear here, too, written in a style that foreshadows the graffiti Wong would come to love decades later.
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Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
Knicks fans have been leaning into the joke, posting TikTok edits foreshadowing Gotham-like anarchy.
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Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
27 May 2026
The Drama Desk Awards have long foreshadowed triumphs at the Tony Awards.
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Marc Hershberg,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
Moulin steers her to the work of Giorgio De Chirico, whose eerie paintings foreshadow where the film is going.
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Damon Wise,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for foreshadow
Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2026
Knicks fans have been leaning into the joke, posting TikTok edits foreshadowing Gotham-like anarchy.
—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
27 May 2026
The Drama Desk Awards have long foreshadowed triumphs at the Tony Awards.
—
Marc Hershberg,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
Moulin steers her to the work of Giorgio De Chirico, whose eerie paintings foreshadow where the film is going.
—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
18 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for foreshadow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadow
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Brexit prefigured further crises of confidence in Western democracies that have led to the steady advance of the far right.
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Over the course of one phantasmagoric evening, Robin witnesses events that prefigure the Revolutionary War.
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Analyst Jack Lu and his team at the bank predict sodium-ion batteries will account for 20% of total battery deployment market share by 2030 and 37% in 2035.
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In some cases, like in Elk River, local utility companies are predicting positive impacts on utility rates thanks to data centers paying larger bills for services.
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His focus on taming inflation implied the opposite.
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His kingdom, the gesture implied, was already full.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off was only Mia Sara's second film role, but her Sloane Peterson has come to be heralded as one of the defining parts of her career.
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The film heralds from co-writers and co-directors Sophie Cohen and Michael Lindsay and is produced by 16oz Films in association with House of Vixens.
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But, by 2030, AI’s intelligence per watt (to reference a new metric recently introduced by Chris Re and colleagues at Stanford) will be dramatically higher, to a degree that few today are anticipating or have yet internalized.
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And traders have consistently anticipated key economic data points, like the rate of US inflation and interest rate decisions from the Federal Reserve.
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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.
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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.
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Alas, the actor did not foresee his countrymen losing to Morocco 1-0 on June 19, but took the L in stride.
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The latter, on a break that stretched tired German legs, captured the story of a footballing mismatch few had foreseen.
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This could harbinger a new age of electro-tech in Asia.
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“Foreshadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshadow. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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