foreshadowing
Example Sentences
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Even the announcement of the Ashes squad was an anticlimactic foreshadowing of things to come.
From BBC
Consumer spending rose again in September, likely foreshadowing data showing a robust pace of economic growth in the third quarter when the long-delayed report is released a few days before Christmas.
From MarketWatch
Depictions of the digital afterlife in shows such as “Black Mirror” can feel bleak, foreshadowing a dystopian future where people get resurrected from the grave as chatbots and robots.
From Los Angeles Times
The idea began at Hewlett-Packard in the 1950s—a foreshadowing of the Silicon Valley look of today—and slowly spread, hitting the East Coast in the early 1990s.
Now that the show’s wedding episodes have aired, one can’t help wondering if the show’s producers were spooning out a bit of foreshadowing.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
