as in predicted
to give a slight indication of beforehand
the hope that the housing slump does not harbinger a general economic recession
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With this year's costumes trend predicted to be pop culture-heavy, obvious duo costumes, like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, come to mind.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Heading into the seven-game series opener, Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon predicted the Aces’ bench could be a potential separator between the opponents.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
4 Oct. 2025
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But Frisch believed complex behaviors implied a function.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Oct. 2025
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It’s implied that an attempt on his own life landed him in a treatment program for the better part of a year.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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The shift followed bipartisan calls to strengthen America’s semiconductor industry amid rising technological competition with China—a sentiment that foreshadowed the federal government’s own historic actions.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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Those rules foreshadowed the sweeping approach now poised to become law.—
Dario Sabaghi,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright conducted tests at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, that are often heralded as the dawn of heavier-than-air flight.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, Cuba-watchers in Washington no longer saw the same political utility in welcoming Cuban refugees, assuming that the Special Period heralded the imminent collapse of Castro’s rule.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
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Through their actions, humanity’s relationship to day and night was reinvented – often in ways that Edison never could have anticipated.—
Ernest Freeberg,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025
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His instincts anticipated the figurative starter’s pistol.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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