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synonyms for portend

  • augur
  • bespeak
  • foretell
  • predict
  • presage
  • adumbrate
  • betoken
  • bode
  • call
  • forebode
  • forecast
  • foreshow
  • forewarn
  • harbinger
  • herald
  • hint
  • omen
  • prognosticate
  • promise
  • prophesy
  • read
  • threaten
  • be in the cards
  • crystal-ball
  • foretoken
  • have a hunch
  • point to
  • premonish
  • see coming
  • warn of
See also synonyms for: portended / portends
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More than mRNA vaccines themselves, these lipid nanoparticles may portend big changes in pharmaceutical development.
THE FIRST COVID-19 VACCINES HAVE CHANGED BIOTECH FOREVERKATHERINE ELLEN FOLEYDECEMBER 22, 2020QUARTZ
Skeptics argue the cryptocurrency’s famed volatility portends a repeat of what happened three years ago, when a bubble burst spectacularly.
BITCOIN BOMBS LOWER, TAKING OTHER DIGITAL COINS WITH ITBERNHARD WARNERNOVEMBER 26, 2020FORTUNE
Including one Wall Street indicator that could portend bad things to come for growth investors.
THIS STOCK MARKET METRIC HAS NEVER BEEN FURTHER OUT OF WHACKANNE SRADERSSEPTEMBER 20, 2020FORTUNE
In June, Disney announced that it was combining its own and Hulu’s ad tech teams into one organization, which likely portends a consolidation of the ad technology the two teams use.
‘NO WAY TO PROPERLY MANAGE FREQUENCY ON TWO AD SERVERS’: THE AD TECH HITCH IN DISNEY’S AND VIACOMCBS’S STREAMING UPFRONT PITCHESTIM PETERSONAUGUST 27, 2020DIGIDAY
How value’s steep descent and growth’s ongoing explosion portend a stunning reversal of fortunes is the subject of an excellent new article, “Value in Recessions and Recoveries,” by Kalesnik and coauthor Ari Polychronopoulos.
THE CHAMP’S BIG COMEBACK: WHY BEATEN-DOWN VALUE STOCKS ARE POISED TO THRIVESHAWN TULLYAUGUST 18, 2020FORTUNE
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
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He had acted as Ruth had bidden him; but he had no wish to be further involved in this affair, whatever it might portend.
MISTRESS WILDINGRAFAEL SABATINI
She went on, wondering what this could portend, for since their chance meeting, she had not laid eyes on her neighbor.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON
If clouds breed high in the air, with white trains like locks of wool, they portend wind, probably rain.
THE TEESDALE ANGLERR LAKELAND
What this obscure threat might portend, I could not see, but it chimed in with the delirious cruelty of the dead sergeant.
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WORDS RELATED TO PORTEND

  • augur
  • bode
  • cloud
  • darken
  • foretell
  • indicate
  • intimate
  • mist
  • obfuscate
  • obscure
  • outline
  • portend
  • sketch
  • suggest
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.