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foretold

ADJECTIVE
known beforehand
Synonyms
STRONG
boded presaged


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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

Some claim that the stock market’s full-year direction is foretold by its performance on the first trading day of January; others focus on the first two days, and still others on the first week.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 2, 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

As Gwydion had foretold, the rest of the morning brought many new arrivals.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander




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