foreshadow
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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
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
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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
He looks younger with his close-cropped hair and his stubble-free face, but the outline of his biceps foreshadows the next few years.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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“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 a move that foreshadowed Fern’s future as a feminist firebrand of her time, she contracted a lawyer and found a room for her daughters and herself in the Marlboro Hotel in Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
As previously discussed in chapter 2, Britain’s colonization of Indigenous lands in North America was foreshadowed by its colonization of the province of Ulster in northern Ireland.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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On the last earnings call in January, CEO Phong Le indicated the company would sell Bitcoin “when it is advantageous to do so,” possibly foreshadowing the recent transaction.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
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
It is ironic that Harrison’s protest against taxation ended up foreshadowing private markets’ capture of artistic value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Like all life-changing events, it happened unexpectedly and without any foreshadowing.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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