foreshadowing
Example Sentences
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The savvy storyteller is an expert at foreshadowing - dropping subtle hints about big releases in everything from her outfit choices to her website aesthetics.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
This week, the price broke above a double bottom pivot of $67.03; foreshadowing this move was the 31% weekly gain three weeks ago.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
“Mythos could find and exploit vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser—even when used by non-experts,” it said, foreshadowing how AI-driven cyber risks could destabilize the financial system if not managed carefully.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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
We can see a foreshadowing of this in the group of people which surrounded Gilbert as he conducted experiments on magnets, but for the most part these were fairly uneducated navigators.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing foreshadowing
Power Prefix: fore-
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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