foretold
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Some claim that the stock market’s full-year direction is foretold by its performance on the first trading day of January; others focus on the first two days, and still others on the first week.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
A philosopher, historian, songbird of grief and prophet, Didion foretold the city’s future with startling accuracy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Of course, they don’t much resemble the levitating Studebakers and auto-gyrating Chevys foretold in pulp science fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
His three under par on the front nine of the second day at the North was noteworthy, but hardly foretold a round that would go into lore.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
When this boy, son of the captive Princess of Corniculum, awoke, the flames evaporated, leaving him unscarred; some years later, as this prodigious conflagration foretold, he was crowned King of Rome.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
