Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretokening
Verb
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Day and night, smartphones deliver a tone, piercing enough to start dogs trembling, alerting us to incoming missiles or drones.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026 -
Before going to bed, Annie forwarded me an email from our bank alerting us that a card had been declined.—
McKay Coppins,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2026
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Imas offered a more expansive view, cautioning against pinning it on any single source.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
7 Mar. 2026
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In the annual review edition of Mundelein’s village publication, The Insider, Meier wrote at length about impact fees, cautioning against letting emotions lead discussions.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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Be Very Afraid is like foreshadowing.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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But the gamesmanship, foreshadowing the adulterous antics of Harold Pinter’s plays, escalates perilously.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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When Gu drops into the halfpipe, listening to American rap, her brain is still working at 100mph, sometimes visualizing a takeoff one second before performing her trick.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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To help with visualizing a standard pour of wine, five ounces is a little more than a 1/2 cup of liquid.—
Jessica Farthing,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2026
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Although the central story is intimate in scale, the film’s scope is large and its social purview deep, and this vast amplitude is a function of Ouédraogo’s way of staging action, or, rather, of envisioning it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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Beyond the arena, Welts shared fresh details about the entertainment district the team is envisioning with its next home.—
Devyani Chhetri,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
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According to Davidson, the BAFTAs did give the crowd some forewarning about his tics.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2026
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Sensitive information shared with Epstein includes forewarning of a multibillion-dollar bailout for the European Union, over $27 billion in asset sales, Labour tax plans, and even Brown’s resignation.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Gufram and Snarkitecture’s Sculpted Mirror In envisaging the Sculpted Mirror for Gufram, Snarkitecture founders designers Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham carefully studied the theme of reflective surfaces.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
11 Dec. 2025
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The ski resort was predicting cloudy skies for most of the weekend with a high of 31 on Friday.—
Hali Smith,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Mar. 2026
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With forecasts predicting a high of 84 degrees on Sunday, Los Angeles Marathon organizers will offer medals to runners who complete 18 miles.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2026
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