foretold

past tense of foretell

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Recent Examples of foretold Todd's second-ever screen role foretold his future prominence, as the taciturn Sgt. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foretold
Verb
  • The number of humans employed by Uber will actually increase as self-driving vehicles become more commonplace, the company’s head of autonomous mobility and delivery Sarfraz Maredia predicted at the World Economy Summit.
    Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • If that happens, Morgan Stanley analysts predicted the market could quickly tumble 11% into a correction.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is the web version of CEO Daily, a newsletter of must-read global insights from CEOs and industry leaders.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • To their credit, the Young Republicans organization issued a strong denouncement of the comments, although I was horrified by reading the online responses to it.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Foretold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foretold. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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