foreshadow
Example Sentences
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“The 2y auction, which generally tends to produce firm results, is also worth watching because weak results there often foreshadow a softer outcome in the following week’s 10y auction,” they added.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
About 100 people ended up undergoing the quarantine process in a display that would foreshadow the Covid-19 pandemic that broke out a year later.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
"You don't have to dramatise these things; you should, at least, acknowledge or foreshadow them."
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Some said this could foreshadow a large jump in prices once the global commodity futures market reopens Sunday evening.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 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
Vocabulary lists containing foreshadow
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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