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foretold

adjective as in known beforehand

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The winning lottery numbers and foretold riches never arrived.

He had, against the odds, successfully foretold their loss to the much weaker Serbia in the first round of play.

The 1976 movie darkly foretold the future of television news.

Virtually none of the disastrous results foretold by declinists and catastrophists materialized in 2013.

The Monuments Men touched upon all of the action in Europe save for Italy—a conspicuous absence that foretold a future volume.

Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time?

The prophets often speak of things to come as if they were past, to express the certainty of the event of the things foretold.

In any case, so far as could be judged, the occurrence foretold was not imminent.

And when a restoration to the privileges of the sabbath is foretold, regard to them as a people in covenant is promised.

Both in the first and in the later ages, the performance of the duty in these ages was foretold.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foretold, such as: null, and null.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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