foretold

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The extravagant and perhaps exaggerated promises of artificial superintelligence always foretold this outcome.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

An angel is thought to have foretold his birth to St Patrick, 30 years before it happened - although the exact date is believed to be some time between 462 and 515 AD.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Some claim that the stock market’s full-year direction is foretold by its performance on the first trading day of January; others focus on the first two days, and still others on the first week.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 2, 2026

To a remarkable degree, they foretold many of the failures that would beset L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

On the basis of a horoscope he had cast, Tycho declared that this event foretold the death of the Ottoman Sultan, Sulaiman, known as the Magnificent.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin