foreshow

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshow
Verb
  • Those are the conclusions of two recent reports about spiraling utility bills, one looking at the past, the other foretelling the future.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Miami had been favored by 13 1/2 points but that whittled to 10 1/2 by kickoff, perhaps foretelling the close game as late gambling money flooded to the Cardinals.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One of Redford’s last screen roles, which presaged his retirement from acting in 2018, was as the career criminal Forrest Tucker in David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun.
    K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Local officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning at Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, the new sanctuary honoring pathbreaking sculptor Alexander Calder, presaging its opening to the public, which is set for September 21.
    News Desk, Artforum, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For buyers who took out car loans in the pandemic years, those trend lines do not bode well.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That does not bode well for their future health.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Foreshow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshow. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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