Thesaurus results for FORESHADOWS

foreshadows

verb

present tense third-person singular of foreshadow

as in prefigures

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 foreshadows Back in King’s Landing, Rhaenyra comes to find that her prisoner Helaena has taken her own life but left a parting gift for the queen that foreshadows a potential prophecy of Rhaenyra’s path towards madness. — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2026 The piece foreshadows Saar’s penchant for transforming common items into near-mystical objects with seemingly simple flourishes that belie complex themes. — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026 The trailer, which lasts all of a minute, foreshadows a lot of what’s to come for the show. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026 This also foreshadows the difficult reality that our talent model must evolve in tandem. — Rachel Proffitt, Fortune, 23 June 2026 Earlier poem-scrolls appear here, too, written in a style that foreshadows the graffiti Wong would come to love decades later. — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026 With almost three years left in his final term, Trump’s absence from CPAC foreshadows his eventual departure as leader of the GOP and the conservative movement, a role typically served by the president or the party’s leading contender for the White House. — Gromer Jeffers Jr. political, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026 The book wonderfully foreshadows one of its best moments, but the film doesn’t do this at all, setting up the action with a few lines of dialog instead. — Matthew Razak, Space.com, 23 Mar. 2026 Zoom out across college athletics, and that resume foreshadows a divorce. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

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The Kamm tail, with its upturned spoiler and flat panel adorned with Ferrari’s signature twin round taillights, is a nod to aerodynamics that prefigures the shape of the Lusso’s spiritual successor, the 275 GTB.

— Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2026
Tragedy strikes many times in this decades-spanning story, in many forms, but the defining event of Grainier’s life sees his home burned to the ground, an event that eerily prefigures the LA fires of early 2025.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025

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The end of season 3, in which Nat seems to set their rescue in motion, implies that the show’s ‘90s timeline may soon follow the survivors back in the real world.

— Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Aug. 2026
News of his death, and its circumstances, has been cloaked in journalistic language that implies suicide, emulating the opacity of suicide itself.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2026

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The project heralds from writer-director Adam Sigal, writer-director of Simon Pegg comedy-thriller Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose and producer on 2024 sci-fi Slingshot with Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026
For these locations, June’s solstice — which heralds astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere — is the winter solstice, not the summer solstice.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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Shotwell said SpaceX's existing infrastructure can't support the number or cadence of Starship launches the company anticipates reaching, and tied Starbase Louisiana to SpaceX's long-term goal of using Starship to make human life interplanetary.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
For that reason, NASA anticipates that Roman will image more than 50 times as much of the sky in the next five years as Hubble covered in three decades.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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