foreshadow

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And last week, Meta and Alphabet lost a landmark social-media addiction trial that could foreshadow more lawsuits.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

The Tokyo figures, which often foreshadow nationwide trends, showed price pressures easing at the start of 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research noted in a client call on Nov. 10 that improvement in earnings growth and profit margins in the second and third quarters was too strong to foreshadow a recession.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

Fans of Swift - who famously drops hidden messages and hints about future projects - have also become convinced Han has been planting seeds throughout the series to foreshadow the outcome.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

Sturtevant’s rudimentary genetic map would foreshadow the vast and elaborate efforts to map genes along the human genome in the 1990s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee