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presignifies

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present tense third-person singular of presignify

as in portends

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Balor enjoyed an elusive win over the seven-foot-tall Talla Tonga, which typically portends well for wrestlers looking to get a world title shot.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Chairman Kevin Warsh has talked tough on inflation and his creation of task forces to study how the Fed operates seems a measured approach, but portends inaction.

— Justin Zacks, CNBC, 24 July 2026

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Daily Cardio Load indicates how much to push your workouts each day to make progress in training without burning out.

— Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Related Stories First-party data also indicates that 30% of the seasons’ viewership came from phones and tablets, one of Peacock’s biggest mobile audiences ever.

— Selome Hailu, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026

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The piece foreshadows Saar’s penchant for transforming common items into near-mystical objects with seemingly simple flourishes that belie complex themes.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
The trailer, which lasts all of a minute, foreshadows a lot of what’s to come for the show.

— Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026

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Harpman was writing in a different era, but the elegiac loneliness of her fiction anticipates our own solitary and screen-bound present.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Fernando anticipates an impact crater nearly 90 feet across and 16 feet deep (27 meters across and 5 meters deep), too small to see from Earth but visible to spacecraft.

— Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

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The Kamm tail, with its upturned spoiler and flat panel adorned with Ferrari’s signature twin round taillights, is a nod to aerodynamics that prefigures the shape of the Lusso’s spiritual successor, the 275 GTB.

— Robert Ross, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2026
Tragedy strikes many times in this decades-spanning story, in many forms, but the defining event of Grainier’s life sees his home burned to the ground, an event that eerily prefigures the LA fires of early 2025.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025

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