presaged

past tense of presage

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of presaged One of Redford’s last screen roles, which presaged his retirement from acting in 2018, was as the career criminal Forrest Tucker in David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun. K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025 Her attraction to coloring books presaged her minimal style. News Desk, Artforum, 8 Sep. 2025 Keane, though, sees nothing but disaster ahead, a portent presaged by some of the film’s most enduring images, like a stretch limo with a flat tire and a steam room littered with empty champagne bottles. Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for presaged
predicted
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

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“Presaged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presaged. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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