foreboding
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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
It’s not so much a scream queen kind of horror; it’s this foreboding horror.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
In contrast, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, concluded its answers to a user’s questions about weapons selection with a foreboding farewell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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
I had a sense of foreboding about the recruit who stood three people ahead of me.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Khalid Aljabri recalled that his father had forebodings of the trouble ahead.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2020
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
For a year, readers would be invited to send in their dreams and forebodings, which would be compared with actual events.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
The French government is relieved that its worst forebodings about the protests did not come to pass.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2018
Still full of forebodings of a hard winter, he foraged about for what he was sure was the last edible stuff on the island: various seeds, dry berries, mushrooms.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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