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foreboding

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


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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

Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

As if being thrown back into the pool of adverse insurance-company decisions weren’t bad enough, three new developments should cause foreboding among Medicare Advantage subscribers.

From MarketWatch Mar. 10, 2026

The invocation, coupled with the slow journey through the dim rooms, aroused in him a sense of foreboding.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Dry in a way that seemed to conflict with Washington meteorological measurement and myth, and with our summertime forebodings and apprehensions.

From Washington Post Jun. 4, 2022

Despite their forebodings, the referendum result shocked Irish officials.

From The Guardian Apr. 18, 2019

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

From BBC Dec. 8, 2018

Of course, all along there were forebodings, hints of the injuries and iniquities that so often seem to accompany utopias.

From The New Yorker Sep. 26, 2016

Each time she closed her eyes, her head filled with forebodings and fantasies of the morrow.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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