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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadowings
  1. hints
  2. predictions
  3. portents
  4. omens
  5. suggestions
  6. prophecies
  7. precursors
  8. heralds
Noun
  • And markets have reacted swiftly to his public signals of peace or hints of progress.
    — Aamer Madhani, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • While there is no water vapor, JWST has picked up hints of solid particles of crystalline water-ice.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of hints
Noun
  • See Star-Telegram high school sports editor Charles Baggarly and reporter Darren Lauber’s predictions for 20 Fort Worth-area games.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026
  • For decades, astronomers studying the surroundings of the Milky Way have determined there are too few dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our own galaxy when compared to predictions made by the standard model of cosmology.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of predictions
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • No omens, no fear—just another extraordinarily beautiful experience locked into memory.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Black cats can be seen as bad omens, sometimes associated with witches and with the old superstition to not let a black cat cross your path.
    — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of omens
Noun
  • Zidar and Zwick have some suggestions for how to change this.
    — John Lanchester, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Many suggestions have circulated about who could be the next 007 agent in the James Bond film franchise, and Pierce Brosnan has a new take on where the studio could go.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of suggestions
Noun
  • Some of its inhabitants look for ominous signs and listen to prophecies.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
  • If only professional old salt Wyck (Stephen Root) would quit with the doomsday prophecies about the fog being a sign of the island waking from malevolent slumber.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of prophecies
Noun
  • This event, which resulted in the death of enslaver Edward Gorsuch, heightened tensions between the North and South and was one of the many precursors to the American Civil War.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Two other groups received Lasker Awards, which are often precursors for Nobel Prizes.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of precursors
Noun
  • The project heralds from Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors behind 2025 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Now Pedicularis had emerged as one of the first heralds of the Arctic summer, its stems wrapped in grayish, silky hairs that protect it like a warm winter coat.
    — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of heralds
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“Foreshadowings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshadowings. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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