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foreshadow

[fawr-shad-oh, fohr-] / fɔrˈʃæd oʊ, foʊr- /


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

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

None of these developments in themselves constitute or necessarily foreshadow a crisis.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

The experience of Woodies residents foreshadow what other communities across America could experience as the frequency of costly natural disasters increases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research noted in a client call on Nov. 10 that improvement in earnings growth and profit margins in the second and third quarters was too strong to foreshadow a recession.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

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




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