foretokened

verb

past tense of foretoken
as in cautioned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretokened
  1. cautioned
  2. alerted
  3. foreshadowed
  4. visualized
  5. envisioned
  6. forewarned
  7. envisaged
  8. predicted
Verb
  • 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
  • Despite the breakthroughs, experts cautioned there are other obstacles.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of cautioned
Verb
  • Deadline has been alerted to a planned protest against NAZA outside Lincoln Center in New York City, where the film will screen on Saturday.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Police, who said that they had been alerted to a stabbing by a Ukrainian citizen, said that a 31-year-old foreign national was detained as a suspect at the scene.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of alerted
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 foreshadowed
Verb
  • Fraser’s sculptures at the Whitney realize, in three dimensions, the sacrifice that de Monteflores’s paintings had visualized decades earlier.
    — Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
  • And Russia’s true position – and with it Putin’s dilemma – can be visualized in a split screen of competing perspectives.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of visualized
Verb
  • Eleanor envisioned an observational film in the vein of Frederick Wiseman, and the doc is narrated by actress Diane Lane, a longtime Coppola family collaborator, who reads Eleanor’s contemporaneous diary entries from twenty years ago.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The yacht’s entire design was envisioned with the physical and mental well-being of the individual in mind.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of envisioned
Verb
  • How to ferment your own tempeh at home For those who love a kitchen task, tempeh can be made at home—though be forewarned, the preparation can be long and laborious.
    — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Anyone writing about this will have to be careful about spoilers, so readers here should be forewarned this review will give away one of the main early plot reveals.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of forewarned
Verb
  • What Jefferson envisaged, in contrast, was an unyielding north-south grid of continental proportions.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The building projects envisaged by the tech industry are on a truly staggering scale.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of envisaged
Verb
  • With global warming, not only will precipitation increasingly fall as rain and not snow, but atmospheric rivers are also predicted to grow more potent, bringing more intense downpours.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel predicted there will be a 50-50 chance that a socialist candidate wins the presidency in 2028 against the Republican nominee, whether that is Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of predicted
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“Foretokened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretokened. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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