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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
So sales drop when consumers are feeling stretched (perhaps foretelling a recession) and pick up as the economy is recovering. Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretelling
Noun
  • Tropical weather experts at Colorado State University 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, 10 Sep. 2025
  • My preseason prediction of nine wins feels very much in play.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Sahm Rule has had an unblemished historical record of predicting recessions.
    Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • However, the settlement is significantly higher than some legal experts were predicting.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its data will feed directly into NOAA's forecasting models to help safeguard satellites, communications systems and power grids from geomagnetic storms.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The team is now preparing to launch on the Bittensor network with a time series forecasting project in finance, finalizing their incentive mechanism, miner, and validator design.
    Becca Bratcher, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The September total lunar eclipse will not be visible from the United States, per NASA's forecast.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The agency’s three-day forecast indicates a minor geomagnetic storm, measured at a value of up to G2 on a scale of G1 to G5.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By an almost impossible conceptual leap, the distant myth of the poem becomes a foreshadowing and a prophecy of events that were, from Virgil’s own historical vantage point, already in the past.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • While there, Ruth discussed prophecies and the end of the world.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Foretelling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretelling. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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