portended

past tense of portend

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of portended Martin County’s anti-development history portended a quick and certain rejection by the county commission. Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for portended
Verb
  • However, the Ulrich plan largely predicted it right, envisioning a district that would absorb all of California’s northern state line with Oregon, stretching to Nevada.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Her nails, designed by celebrity manicurist Tom Bachik, followed predicted fall trends with a milky pink base and a short cut.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Freixe took the top job and promised to refocus on core businesses, while ruling out major M&A that peer companies have pursued.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Viral marketing tactics, coupled with strong social media word-of-mouth, boded well for both films’ success, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the data firm Comscore.
    Itzel Luna, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For the high-energy number, which at times resembled a block party and at other times a protest, Carpenter called on a number of drag stars.
    Mikelle Street, Them., 8 Sep. 2025
  • Turkey’s best men’s marathoner in Rio was born in Kenya — once named Mike Kipruto Kigen, and now called Kaan Kigen Ozbilen — and two of their three athletes in the women’s marathon originated from Ethiopia.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.
    Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025

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“Portended.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/portended. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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