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The cast’s choices are like weather-balloon data that presage the disaster of the movie’s climax, when everyone behaves like an emotionally incontinent millennial.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

If Rosenberg is right and “odds of some policy action or communication to stabilize the yen are rising,” then this could presage a major trading reversal.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

The divergence does, however, presage what may happen when the military awards its contracts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025

But some familiar with the company think the headquarters relocation announcement could presage a larger presence in Texas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

Since it must, they thought, presage the fall of some kingdom, the comet encouraged, in some sense precipitated, the invasion of England by William the Conqueror.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The top honor at the newly rebranded Actor Awards recognizes the ensemble cast of a film -- a decision that sometimes, but not always, presages Oscars best picture glory.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

The rapidly growing rail system is a symbol of India’s modernization, and Charu’s bookish father, a workshop manager, believes in the progress it presages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

It is intense, precise and gorgeously written, and I hope it presages another volume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

But he takes umbrage at the notion that 2023 presages a “new normal.”

From National Geographic ● Sep. 8, 2023

Orgoreyn and the Archipelago has been increasing during the last ten or twenty millennia, and presages the end of the Ice, or at least a recession of it and an interglacial period.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

In the past, long weekly winning streaks have typically presaged more gains for the index, following some near-term weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

“Not all high-profile U.S. IPOs have presaged major corrections in the S&P 500,” said John Higgins, chief economic adviser for financial markets at Capital Economics.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

Crime fiction became more realistic, an approach presaged by Dashiell Hammett and other hard-boiled American writers in the 1920s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

He didn’t stay but his arrival presaged their comeback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

Shreve cried, though Quentin had not spoken: it had been merely some quality, some gathering of Quentin’s still laxed and hunched figure which presaged speech, because Shreve said Wait.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

Trevor Milton, founder of the electric truck manufacturer Nikola, was convicted of misleading investors in 2022, presaging Nikola’s bankruptcy last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

The apocalyptic imagination, he argued, imposes on history “neat, naïve patterns” presaging a turning point in the grand scheme of humanity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Scores were exposed to the virus, presaging potential catastrophe in Africa’s most populous nation.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2025

The producers organization is considered the group with the best track record of presaging the Oscars.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

Now the precise outlines of her skull show through the skin of her face, presaging death.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein