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 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 The film smartly foreshadows what will befall Alma and Maggie and Hank. — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026 Mercury’s entrance to Capricorn foreshadows an important business conversation. — Usa Today, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026 It was shot in 2020, but the story foreshadows events that occurred during its release year (2021) in Guinea, Southeastern Nigeria, Myanmar, and Sudan. — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshadows
  1. prefigures
  2. predicts
  3. implies
  4. heralds
  5. anticipates
Verb
  • 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
Definition of prefigures
Verb
  • The history of tech transformation predicts short-term pain (job destruction) and long-term gain (job creation).
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 14 July 2026
  • In operation, the system first predicts future visual states from current observations and language instructions.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Definition of predicts
Verb
  • His $72 dollar target on TeraWulf implies a tripling from here.
    — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • The correlation implies that if the cost of AI falls, so does the value of equity in the companies that supply computing power for those AI models—presumably because lower compute revenues mean lower earnings per share.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Definition of implies
Verb
  • 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
  • Of that total, 75 were by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, whose recent splashy IPO heralds how lucrative this next chapter of commercial spaceflight could be.
    — Kaylah Jackson, NBC news, 29 June 2026
Definition of heralds
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  • The city anticipates that the permanent facility will be constructed in the next four years.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention anticipates that cases will continue to rise, possibly through August, officials said Tuesday, July 14, during a call with media outlets on the response on the outbreaks.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026
Definition of anticipates

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