presignify

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for presignify
Verb
  • Many speculated about what Dundon’s ownership of a newly successful National Hockey League team in Raleigh, North Carolina, would portend for Oregon’s oldest and biggest sports franchise.
    Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Third grade reading scores are raised as the bellwether in the state's reading crisis, because the ability to read by third grade can often portend a student's success in school and after, research claims.
    Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The quarterback might touch the $1,000 poker chip or tap his chin or touch his black chips to indicate who at the table had the best hand.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Reason for Wausau's closure isn't clear In the letter, a formal notification that complies with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988, Wausau's group vice president of the snow and ice division, JP Bourque, did not indicate the reason for the company's closure.
    Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That is, because it is entangled with the hot and cold objects, the demon can divine and exploit all their correlations systematically.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That icky moment was indeed a truth from Mescal, which O'Connor easily divined.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those with clout in various spheres coalesced into one clubby circle, and fell prey to a groupthink that foresaw riches for everyone, without consequences.
    Evan Hughes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But in a turn of events that no one at the distillery could have foreseen, this almost didn’t happen—on July 31, a truckload of Westland whiskey worth almost $1 million, including nearly half of the Garryana bottles, was stolen.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The institute also launched a wastewater surveillance project, geared at monitoring and anticipating disease trends in communities.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Here’s an example from early on in their epic duel, as Carreras anticipates Ronald Araujo’s pass into Yamal, and is quick to close him down in frame one.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Its arrival betokened a more gentrified, sanitized Village — a place of $73 million townhouses and celebrity brunches.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 May 2025
  • The Wiseman reference betokens a certain seriousness on the part of the creators, an awareness that people might be watching who know a thing or two about the subject.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Bacon takes his time getting to the fateful voyage; there are myriad sidebars of varying interest on topics such as Great Lakes shipping and the rise of taconite, two lake wrecks that foreshadowed the Fitz, even the sailors’ favorite watering holes.
    Kevin Duchschere, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The deployment of a carrier strike group represents a significant escalation in that campaign and could foreshadow the beginning of airstrikes against targets in Venezuela.
    Davis Winkie, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Macquarie’s head of economics, David Doyle, also speaking exclusively to Fortune, warned that this stimulus could fuel overheating by 2026 if inflation rebounds.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Haitians were warned the intensification of Melissa had increased the risks of flash floods and landslides.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
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“Presignify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presignify. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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