portend
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The release “could portend some deceleration of steep memory-price increases for the likes of Micron,” according to Kerwin.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Put it all together, and the march of trillicorn IPOs doesn’t portend doom for investors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
So what does this portend for the future of American politics?
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
Shedding talent and salary gave Boston financial flexibility—but it also seemed to portend a season of knocking around the NBA’s ocean floor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
The Greeks had an old saying, too: “Red beard and blue eyes portend the Devil.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Conditions like dissociative identity disorder may dictate multiple support animals, and the growth in pet psychologists portends a burgeoning trend of emotionally affected pets needing their own support animals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It’s unclear what the spike in activity portends for the rest of the fire season.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
A federal holiday often portends a long weekend for travel—or maybe just an extra day off to relax.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
If the idea was to de-ice Melania for viewers and, in turn, make them forget about the allegations against Ratner, this one-two punch in the film’s first 10 minutes only portends glorious failure.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
Por′tent, that which portends or foreshows: an evil omen.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The public debut of SpaceX—officially Space Exploration Technologies — portended different things to different investors but was significant for all.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The staginess that sinks many of his other pictures portended a digital age where all images would trend toward idealized, Photoshopped perfection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
When either, or both, of these signals have triggered five times or more combined within the span of five trading sessions, it has often portended trouble ahead, the SentimenTrader report said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
As his maiden voyage with the group, "The Yes Album" portended things to come.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2023
Or maybe it was the future the mark portended.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Amid fading light, the delicate fledglings fluttered in a wind portending a storm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Before they knew it, the sky turned dark, portending a storm.
From BBC ● May 29, 2025
Cougars are our canaries in the coal mine, portending consequences of lost connectivity for all Southwest Washington.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
"Nonetheless, while we expect the summer rally to continue, investor exuberance is likely to lessen in the near-term, portending a less vigorous rally."
From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023
The reformer saw more clearly than they the rising of the clouds of civil war portending ruin to his native land.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn
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