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foretokens 1 of 2

noun

plural of foretoken
as in indicators

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foretokens

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verb

present tense third-person singular of foretoken
as in cautions

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretokens
  1. indicators
  2. cautions
  3. signs
  4. alerts
  5. signals
  6. foreshadows
  7. declarations
  8. envisages
Noun
  • Organizations should periodically ask whether their indicators still reflect their mission or whether reporting requirements have slowly begun shaping program choices.
    — Ekramy El Zaghat, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Lateral movement can produce indicators such as unusual account access, authentication activity, privilege escalation attempts or network reconnaissance.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of indicators
Verb
  • Lipska cautions that there is still little to no research on the meaning of glucose spikes in people without diabetes.
    — Crystal Gwizdala, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Lisa Gielincki, the founder of LG Interior Design Collective in Jacksonville, Florida, cautions against positioning every piece against the walls.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of cautions
Noun
  • In years past, department statistics showed at least a third of all police shootings involved someone with obvious signs of emotional distress.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Presuming Ausar signs, Miami will have 21 players under contract, the most a team can carry during training camp.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of signs
Verb
  • The platform instantly identifies the failure and alerts the integrator’s network operations center (NOC).
    — Robert Messer, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The $10 device sounds a 120-decibel siren that alerts anyone within a 1,500-foot radius.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of alerts
Noun
  • Potential applications include wearable devices monitoring movement and physiological signals.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
  • One official reported positive signals coming from both sides.
    — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of signals
Verb
  • While purple has come to represent Swift’s Speak Now era, during that London outing, Swift wore a lilac purple dress with flowers, which fans are convinced foreshadows the primary color and aesthetics of the singer’s 13th LP.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Back in King’s Landing, Rhaenyra comes to find that her prisoner Helaena has taken her own life but left a parting gift for the queen that foreshadows a potential prophecy of Rhaenyra’s path towards madness.
    — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of foreshadows
Noun
  • The atmosphere feels similar to Pentecostal churches, with the hymns and spiritual declarations very familiar to those sung in other churches.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
  • By updating the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive to blacklist specific misleading marketing tactics, however, EmpCo could lighten the load for watchdog groups by rendering once-routine declarations off-limits.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of declarations
Verb
  • Significantly more advanced than the Lego Apollo Lunar Rover, this set envisages the engineering that could support future moon exploration.
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • However, Hieronimus envisages in the second half of 2026 that turbulences in Chinese domestic airports, due to the change of operator that led to stock issues, will be resolved.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of envisages
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“Foretokens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretokens. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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