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These numbers portend to illuminate society-threatening failures within the current immigration enforcement system.

Could the retirement of Rep. Tom Latham, a close friend, portend the exit of Speaker John Boehner as well?

Dissonant music that might otherwise be found in a Kubrick film portend to the worst.

But a small, important minority of these social-media clues portend real pain, struggle, even malice and disaster.

A look at the most bizarre metrics used to portend the winner of the presidential election.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

He had acted as Ruth had bidden him; but he had no wish to be further involved in this affair, whatever it might portend.

She went on, wondering what this could portend, for since their chance meeting, she had not laid eyes on her neighbor.

If clouds breed high in the air, with white trains like locks of wool, they portend wind, probably rain.

What this obscure threat might portend, I could not see, but it chimed in with the delirious cruelty of the dead sergeant.