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
Years of turmoil presaged the takeover.
—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2026
Franco-Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, whose innovations in kinetic and Op art presaged the interactive art of today, died in Paris on May 30.
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 June 2026
Hutchinson also described a family history of mental health struggles that presaged his own decline at UC Davis in the months before the killings.
—
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2026
Franco-Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc, whose innovations in kinetic and Op art presaged the interactive art of today, died in Paris on May 30.
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 June 2026
Hutchinson also described a family history of mental health struggles that presaged his own decline at UC Davis in the months before the killings.
—
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presaged
predicted
Verb
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On the other side of the supply-and-demand scale, consumers’ appetite for oil fell substantially more over the past few months than just about anyone predicted.
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Syria was always an aspiration, but few could have predicted how quickly the Assad regime would collapse or how rapidly the country would shift from an Iran-Russia orbit toward one increasingly aligned with the West and Gulf states.
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