foreshadow
Example Sentences
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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
And last week, Meta and Alphabet lost a landmark social-media addiction trial that could foreshadow more lawsuits.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
Over time the address has become a vehicle for presidents to address the nation’s residents, claim legislative victories and foreshadow upcoming policy goals.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 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
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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