Thesaurus results for FORESHADOWINGS

foreshadowings

noun

plural of foreshadowing

as in hints

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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Noun

Wolf offered hints of rotational usefulness last season, but his clock-killing, ball-stopping dribbles to nowhere stood out more in a summer-league environment where his team was actually trying to win.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 24 July 2026
There were grassy agave notes, but tasters also mentioned piney, forest flavors, and hints of aromatic cinnamon.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 July 2026

Definition of hints

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Investment firms looking to get ahead, meanwhile, will be spending big to hire Fed alumni who can help make predictions in a lower-transparency environment, Richardson said.

— Alex Harring, CNBC, 18 July 2026
Forty years ago, a NASA scientist learned from her boss about the potential for global warming due to fossil fuels, with predictions of future heat domes and forest fires.

— Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of predictions

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Always alert to mood swings, Hollywood this week is coping with some dauntingly positive portents.

— Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 June 2026
But there is reason for hope, because the season-one finale of Widow’s Bay is like a beacon in the dark, and all the signs and portents are lining up.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 17 June 2026

Definition of portents

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There was a book in Sapphire’s den that ran a different set of numbers, the math of omens and outcomes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
Long before scientists understood solar wind or magnetism, people associated auroras with spirits, omens, warriors, or celestial beings.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026

Definition of omens

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Rodríguez has rejected suggestions that authorities understated the disaster, saying the government releases only casualty figures that have been fully verified and would not speculate about the final toll.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
In these cases, models can make confident but wrong suggestions that can only be solved by cleaning up the data.

— Saurabh Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of suggestions

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Dafoe’s Thomas Wake is the film’s Proteus figure, a salty old lighthouse keeper who speaks like someone out of ancient myth, dispensing prophecies and superstitions.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 18 July 2026
There were warning signs blinking about the quality of the defenders for weeks and on Monday those prophecies were fulfilled.

— Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 6 July 2026

Definition of prophecies

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Laboratory demonstrations have already shown production pathways for lubricant precursors, munition components, active pharmaceutical ingredients, bioplastics, and single-cell proteins.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
In this study, published last month in Science, researchers found that as mice got close to the end of their pregnancies, placental levels of NAD+ and its precursors dropped off fast.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 20 July 2026

Definition of precursors

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The heralds operate like independent contractors, with their own caseloads.

— Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 9 June 2026
The reason is that the 1996 Ferrari 550 Maranello’s arrival was one of the heralds of the Ferrari of today, the one building cars with both world-beating performance and everyday usability.

— Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 28 May 2026

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