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In Old English, foreboding was associated with what?

foreboding

[fawr-boh-ding, fohr-] / fɔrˈboʊ dɪŋ, foʊr- /


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In Atlanta, her visionary cosmologies read as foreboding, otherworldly—paradise lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Since then, he feels a sense of foreboding whenever dark clouds signal the onset of another storm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

But a 0.1-percent dip in food services sales could reflect that people are opting to drive less -- a foreboding sign for broader spending in the services sector.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Our trusted sources in Iran spoke with opposition activists, human rights lawyers and independent journalists and found a mood of foreboding.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

It only increased her foreboding of the meeting that lay ahead.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

All day, gray clouds clustered overhead, adding to forebodings, and ratifying forecasts of a gathering storm.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

Heaven finds a new life at her estranged grandparents’ exquisite Boston mansion, but even in the world of the wealthy, there are strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019

The French government is relieved that its worst forebodings about the protests did not come to pass.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2018

The sounds could be heard as flashbacks or as forebodings.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018

Despite Dad’s forebodings, there were no ponies or roadsters.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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