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foretoken 1 of 2

noun

Definition of foretokennext
as in foretaste

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verb

as in to alert

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretoken
  1. foretaste
  2. alert
  3. sign
  4. foreshadow
  5. indicator
  6. caution
  7. signal
  8. visualize
Noun
  • On the announcement day, Astera Labs jumped about 11% and Rocket Lab around 9%, a foretaste of the flows to come.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • However, there is a way to get a foretaste of the menu.
    — Ella Gonzales May 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2026
Definition of foretaste
Verb
  • As complaints were rolling in about Jardon, a senior accountant at Citrus was alerted to a $30,000 purchase of Apple products through the nonprofit’s Amazon account, the warrant said.
    — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
  • After this, the off-duty officer alerted his colleagues to the shooting, allowing Austin police to quickly respond to the scene.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of alert
Noun
  • That’s a sign of how much the movie’s visual effects emanate directly from the imagination of the filmmaker.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The Full Moon in your sign puts your identity, desires, and personal direction under a bright light, making old compromises harder to maintain automatically.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of sign
Verb
  • Tung’s tenure and resignation foreshadowed years of pro-democracy unrest that culminated in the 2019 protests and Beijing’s repressive national security law.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The novel, published in 1988, foreshadowed the career to come by taking on, with disarming frankness, everything from child abuse to transracial adoption.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of foreshadow
Noun
  • The indicator has reset multiple times during this consolidation without getting oversold.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Importantly, in places where rates of the virus are higher, indicators of serious illness aren’t rising yet, says Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease physician and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of indicator
Verb
  • Financial and investing professionals caution against making any major money moves based on short-term market conditions.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Green promised other changes as well, but cautioned fans not to take them as anything more than trial runs.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of caution
Noun
  • The system could therefore separate where a biological signal is detected from where treatment is delivered.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
  • One of the novel’s sharpest scenes comes when Ellen calls and Ruby, hearing urgency in her voice, runs automatically through the house to find better signal.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of signal
Verb
  • To calculate the number of holes even in large dimensions—when people can no longer visualize these figures—mathematicians use special tricks.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The throwing is just a way to visualize it within the virtual space.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
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“Foretoken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretoken. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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