foreshadow

Example Sentences

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None of these developments in themselves constitute or necessarily foreshadow a crisis.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

The experience of Woodies residents foreshadow what other communities across America could experience as the frequency of costly natural disasters increases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research noted in a client call on Nov. 10 that improvement in earnings growth and profit margins in the second and third quarters was too strong to foreshadow a recession.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

The scene is a foreshadow, and signals that the novel will compress time, dwelling on certain details or events, while allotting mere lines to other pivotal moments, or allowing them to occur offstage, in passing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025

Sturtevant’s rudimentary genetic map would foreshadow the vast and elaborate efforts to map genes along the human genome in the 1990s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee