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A high ADR premium doesn’t necessarily foretell disaster—in 2008-09, TSMC’s fat premium was the result of Taiwanese shares’ falling much more than the ADRs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Its flashing lights and internet connectivity foretell a future in which kids won’t rummage around in the toy box at all, opting instead for more and more screen time.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

Perhaps it’s bear markets that foretell better times.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Her name was Annie—“just Annie,” no surname—and she was “just an orphan,” a nobody, really, but she never let her impoverished origins foretell her fate.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2024

“Oh, I see. A rabbit I knew once. He used to foretell the weather and so on.”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

This foretells of a world where hydrocarbons are substituted by other energy sources.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

The “Skyscraper Index” foretells tough times for a city or country that’s just built the world’s tallest one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

If the coming days are anything like those of past years, analysts will try to make the case that the stock market’s performance at the beginning of January foretells its full-year direction.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026

Montiel takes a while to tip his hand that he’s after something more emotionally complex than the first act foretells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Mother warns how we act today foretells the whole year.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

But no one foretold that the star to whom the Dodgers agreed last winter to pay an average of $60 million each year would be, well, average.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

When the Fed eased after a market rout, it was usually reacting to what the decline foretold.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

An angel is thought to have foretold his birth to St Patrick, 30 years before it happened - although the exact date is believed to be some time between 462 and 515 AD.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

As the journalist Robert Bryce foretold years ago: “Electric vehicles are the Next Big Thing, and they always will be.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

We made the land, put ram and ewe ashore, and took our way along the Ocean stream to find the place foretold for us by Kirke.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

In the dark recesses of the U.S. economy, price pressures are bubbling up and foretelling another wave of inflation.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

Critics have heaped praise on the new comedy series from Detectorists creator Mackenzie Crook, which follows a man who creates tiny creatures capable of foretelling the future and answering any question.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

Industry prognosticators and AI evangelists have spent months foretelling the toll Anthropic and other sophisticated AI tools would exact on software-as-a-service companies that were darlings of the previous internet era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

A foretelling of last earthly smells, whether for the hunted or the hunter.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025

One of the travellers, a squint-eyed ill-favoured fellow, was foretelling that more and more people would be coming north in the near future.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien