foreshadow
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Indeed, months of drought and heat waves tend to foreshadow the fiercest wildfires.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Yet many of the body plans seen in those ancient animals foreshadow features that later appeared in dinosaurs, birds, and other groups.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
Consumer sentiment has also tumbled, and while that doesn’t always mean actual spending is about to drop, it could foreshadow problems in the months ahead.
From Barron's ● May 28, 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
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
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History tells us that large and rapidly growing debt in major economies often foreshadows a financial crisis.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
Viewed against such a prism, this foreshadows a period of sloppy price action or correction for the stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025
Analysts suggest imminent, further base rate cuts by the Bank of England appear unlikely, and uncertainty always foreshadows a Budget.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025
The book foreshadows the fall of Leahy but does it gingerly and with grace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
He looks younger with his close-cropped hair and his stubble-free face, but the outline of his biceps foreshadows the next few years.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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A recent speech by another BOJ board member and a summary of opinions from its last meeting in April have foreshadowed a hawkish shift.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Visitors also encountered the phonograph and early mechanical fastening devices that foreshadowed later developments in clothing closures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
His comments upon exiting might have foreshadowed the current difficulties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
That set foreshadowed the history lesson in Puerto Rican music Bad Bunny would soon give with "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which he promoted with a hometown concert residency.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Each is foreshadowed by an earlier century, but dazzles into full prominence in the twentieth.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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It was also foreshadowing for the young professionals in the audience who had not yet learned that being good at your job, or even great, wasn’t enough to keep it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
So far, neither side is showing signs of backing down, foreshadowing a fight that could take years.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Reinhart, the BNY economist, said the absence of foreshadowing makes Waller’s dissent more consequential.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Immediately after Goldman and Apple launched the card, rival issuers looked with raised eyebrows at some of the terms, foreshadowing issues that would come up in the deal talks in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the Age of Science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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