foreshadow

PIPs often foreshadow inevitable firings, but she refused to give up on someone in her charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Indeed, months of drought and heat waves tend to foreshadow the fiercest wildfires.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

Yet many of the body plans seen in those ancient animals foreshadow features that later appeared in dinosaurs, birds, and other groups.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026

"You don't have to dramatise these things; you should, at least, acknowledge or foreshadow them."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Sturtevant’s rudimentary genetic map would foreshadow the vast and elaborate efforts to map genes along the human genome in the 1990s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

History tells us that large and rapidly growing debt in major economies often foreshadows a financial crisis.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

But there was a twist that foreshadows the uncertain new path of Venezuela’s leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Viewed against such a prism, this foreshadows a period of sloppy price action or correction for the stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025

Analysts suggest imminent, further base rate cuts by the Bank of England appear unlikely, and uncertainty always foreshadows a Budget.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

There was movement in the darkness, scuffling and shuffling, a redistribution of ancient centuries, an evasion of foreshadows.

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

“Barring a miracle, the 2020s will prove to be what their ominous opening foreshadowed: a lost decade-not just for a couple of outliers, but for dozens of developing economies,” Gill said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

His comments upon exiting might have foreshadowed the current difficulties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Andreessen’s prescient call foreshadowed 15 years of transformation and arguably trillions in value creation.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

In October, Bessent had foreshadowed the change, saying future revisions would “position FinCEN as a gatekeeper” over AML enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

The AEC personnel board hearings foreshadowed a conflict over security and politics that would have a historic impact on the Berkeley campus and the Rad Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

It was also foreshadowing for the young professionals in the audience who had not yet learned that being good at your job, or even great, wasn’t enough to keep it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

So far, neither side is showing signs of backing down, foreshadowing a fight that could take years.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Reinhart, the BNY economist, said the absence of foreshadowing makes Waller’s dissent more consequential.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Even the announcement of the Ashes squad was an anticlimactic foreshadowing of things to come.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

I couldn’t even tell you what I thought about, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Homer’s use of foreshadowing in the Odyssey.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick