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foretelling

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verb

present participle of foretell

foretelling

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of foretelling
Adjective
Every day there are LinkedIn posts, as well as Forbes, NYT, and WSJ articles about the massive capital reallocation by customers and investors to AI from SaaS, foretelling the end of SaaS. Barry Libert, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 An optimist would read the internal market action in recent weeks as foretelling an early-cycle reacceleration/reflation dynamic setting up. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretelling
Noun
  • Tropical weather experts at Colorado State University (CSU) echo these predictions, saying overall atmospheric conditions, including wind patterns, will shift in a manner that supports a notable increase in activity.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Amodei has faced backlash this year for overly ambitious predictions, including saying six months ago that 90 percent of code would be written by AI in six months.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Explore Fall, a website that provides resources and tools to track the changing colors of leaves, is predicting an earlier and quicker fall foliage peak for the millions of people looking to see this year's natural spectacle.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Going to half yearly reporting might potentially lead to even more trading by hedge funds who are more interested in predicting near term stock price changes rather than long term fundamentals.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This forward-thinking cultural calendar alignment demonstrates how successful brands anticipate and build collections around significant cultural milestones, providing retail marketers with frameworks for long-term trend forecasting and seasonal planning strategies.
    Kaleigh Moore, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Yet respondents are divided overall on the effect on interest rates, with 39% believing the president action's will result in lower rates and the same percentage forecasting higher rates as a result.
    Steve Liesman, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By reproducing the tachocline, scientists now have a foundation for more reliable forecasts of solar activity.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The lower forecasts stem from the philosophy that the audience for this movie is niche-focused, limited to Demon Slayer devotees, and that no audience expansion is possible.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But at least some of that conflict comes from false assumptions, and some of it comes from turning their preconceptions into self-fulfilling prophecies.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Whether or not that is the beginning of the end for linear TV is a prophecy game more than anything right now.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Foretelling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretelling. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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