portend
Example Sentences
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Does this Super Bowl’s record-breaking A.I. ad splurge also portend a coming pop?
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026
His insistence that no one is safe until everyone is safe, can seem to portend a future in which no one will ever be safe, though as a teacher I assume he’s more sanguine.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Between 2002 and 2007 the dollar suffered a similar drop, but it didn’t portend the end of its hegemonic status.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 13, 2026
Agnes cares for her second daughter so devoutly that her worry can’t help but portend tragedy, and Zhao and O’Farrell’s foreshadowing is as subtle as a sword to the spleen.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
The Greeks had an old saying, too: “Red beard and blue eyes portend the Devil.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing portend
Grade 11, List 2
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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Chains
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