- present participle of forebode.
foreboding
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Brook's first act of the day was a foreboding one for England.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
But a 0.1-percent dip in food services sales could reflect that people are opting to drive less -- a foreboding sign for broader spending in the services sector.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
As if being thrown back into the pool of adverse insurance-company decisions weren’t bad enough, three new developments should cause foreboding among Medicare Advantage subscribers.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 10, 2026
Then why did Judith’s teasing always raise this cold little lump of foreboding?
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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Khalid Aljabri recalled that his father had forebodings of the trouble ahead.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2020
The French government is relieved that its worst forebodings about the protests did not come to pass.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2018
Of course, all along there were forebodings, hints of the injuries and iniquities that so often seem to accompany utopias.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
This included a woman, her young child with a doll, the dead cat and forebodings about nuclear disaster and wave/particle duality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2014
Despite Dad’s forebodings, there were no ponies or roadsters.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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