foreboding
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Brook's first act of the day was a foreboding one for England.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 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
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
There was an unspoken foreboding in the warrior’s eyes as he leaned in as far as the bars would let him.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
And there are less apocalyptic forebodings as well: unstoppable AI-powered hackers, massive global AI misinformation campaigns, rampant unemployment as artificial intelligence takes our jobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2023
All day, gray clouds clustered overhead, adding to forebodings, and ratifying forecasts of a gathering storm.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 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
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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