as in predicted
to tell of or describe beforehand
people used to believe that a comet presaged a major event, such as the death of a king
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Recent Examples of presaged
Hutchinson also described a family history of mental health struggles that presaged his own decline at UC Davis in the months before the killings.
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Darrell Smith
may 28, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026
Hopkins turned in a tour de force creepy performance that presaged his Oscar-winning work in The Silence of the Lambs years later.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 May 2026
But Henry Wilshire’s agreement with the city presaged a long struggle to build the system’s central artery, the D Line, which runs east to west underneath the city, roughly along the path of Wilshire Boulevard.
—Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
As for Cipriani, a hidden history of run-ins with power players seems to have presaged this Shell game.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
Those events presaged the 2026 Iran war, in which Israel and the United States launched a large-scale operation against Iran’s military infrastructure and senior leadership.
—Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
His first bitter taste of the majors presaged many more setbacks to come.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Yet the demands of modernity produced some humane outcomes that also presaged the future.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
Italian Conceptual artist and theorist Franco Vaccari, whose participatory photographic works presaged the logics of social media and helped photography gain recognition as an art form, died on December 12.
—News Desk, Artforum, 18 Dec. 2025
Darrell Smith
may 28, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026
Hopkins turned in a tour de force creepy performance that presaged his Oscar-winning work in The Silence of the Lambs years later.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 May 2026
But Henry Wilshire’s agreement with the city presaged a long struggle to build the system’s central artery, the D Line, which runs east to west underneath the city, roughly along the path of Wilshire Boulevard.
—Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
As for Cipriani, a hidden history of run-ins with power players seems to have presaged this Shell game.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
Those events presaged the 2026 Iran war, in which Israel and the United States launched a large-scale operation against Iran’s military infrastructure and senior leadership.
—Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
His first bitter taste of the majors presaged many more setbacks to come.
—Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Yet the demands of modernity produced some humane outcomes that also presaged the future.
—Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2026
Italian Conceptual artist and theorist Franco Vaccari, whose participatory photographic works presaged the logics of social media and helped photography gain recognition as an art form, died on December 12.
—News Desk, Artforum, 18 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presaged
predicted
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Some early polls predicted a possible dual Republican matchup, panicking Democrats worried about losing the governor’s mansion for the first time in two decades and reigniting an effort to reform the primary system.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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Of the 180,000 barrels per day of gasoline demand that evaporated from the Chinese market, 70% won’t come back – ever, JPMorgan predicted.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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“Presaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presaged. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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