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noun

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as in hint
something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event the hero's strange encounter with a grave digger is often seen as a foreshadowing of his own death

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verb

present participle of foreshadow
as in prefiguring
to give a slight indication of beforehand a series of small tremors that foreshadowed the massive earthquake the next day

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“Foreshadowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshadowing. Accessed 2 Dec. 2022.

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