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foretold

ADJECTIVE
known beforehand
Synonyms
STRONG
boded presaged


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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

What follows is a chronicle of a death foretold.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2025

Yet maybe at last the time foretold has come, and Aragorn may pass.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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