portent

Example Sentences

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A portent, perhaps, of the weather forecast which briefly caused a scare prior to India's dominant win over Pakistan later that evening.

From BBC

But the country's most popular horoscope forecasting the Buddhist new year starting in early 2026, touted by street vendors nationwide in recent days, contains clashing portents.

From Barron's

It proved a portent of what was to come.

From BBC

All the efforts to save microchip production in the U.S. come amid undeniable portents of the end of microchips.

From The Wall Street Journal

Are England's batting struggles in these first two ODIs an early portent for another southern hemisphere winter of discontent?

From BBC