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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
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, 18 Oct. 2025 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
  • While the eastern part of Arizona similarly shows a 40-50% lower than normal precipitation prediction.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • DraftKings, which has lost roughly $5 billion in market cap over the last few weeks due to the growth of prediction exchanges, is planning to launch its own futures marketplace in the coming months.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When further trained on human and virus protein interactions, PLM-Interact again outperformed existing models in predicting how viruses interact with host proteins.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Bleacher Report's Kristopher Knox made a significant projection for Pittsburgh following the loss, predicting that Mike Tomlin's club will swing a trade for New Orleans Saints receiver Rashid Shaheed.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In industries like customer service or supply chain management, this could mean embedding AI into existing platforms to streamline workflows, augment human decision-making, or improve forecasting accuracy.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The weather service offers 7-day forecasting, as uncertainty increases beyond a week out.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even Hawaii’s Big Island summits are under a Winter Weather Advisory, with up to five inches of snow and freezing rain forecast overnight into Sunday morning.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • As this tricky forecast comes into focus, all signs point to Jamaica being ground zero for what could become one of the most destructive hurricanes of the season.
    Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yesterday seemed much more like a team retreating by choice, both through in-game changes and by the sheer fear of surrendering another lead — a fear that became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As natural disasters erupt, Virginia flees Detroit with her son Joshua, guided by visions that suggest her child is central to an ancient prophecy.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Foretelling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretelling. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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