foreshadow

Indeed, months of drought and heat waves tend to foreshadow the fiercest wildfires.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

Yet many of the body plans seen in those ancient animals foreshadow features that later appeared in dinosaurs, birds, and other groups.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026

"You don't have to dramatise these things; you should, at least, acknowledge or foreshadow them."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

The experience of Woodies residents foreshadow what other communities across America could experience as the frequency of costly natural disasters increases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

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

History tells us that large and rapidly growing debt in major economies often foreshadows a financial crisis.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

Viewed against such a prism, this foreshadows a period of sloppy price action or correction for the stock market.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 24, 2025

Analysts suggest imminent, further base rate cuts by the Bank of England appear unlikely, and uncertainty always foreshadows a Budget.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2025

The book foreshadows the fall of Leahy but does it gingerly and with grace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

There was movement in the darkness, scuffling and shuffling, a redistribution of ancient centuries, an evasion of foreshadows.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The seminal pop-punk album, full of romantic innocence and disarming humor, foreshadowed the rise of new wave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Visitors also encountered the phonograph and early mechanical fastening devices that foreshadowed later developments in clothing closures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

His comments upon exiting might have foreshadowed the current difficulties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Andreessen’s prescient call foreshadowed 15 years of transformation and arguably trillions in value creation.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

Gravesend had been swallowed by a heavy, chilled night, the kind that could have foreshadowed snow.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

It was also foreshadowing for the young professionals in the audience who had not yet learned that being good at your job, or even great, wasn’t enough to keep it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

So far, neither side is showing signs of backing down, foreshadowing a fight that could take years.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

Immediately after Goldman and Apple launched the card, rival issuers looked with raised eyebrows at some of the terms, foreshadowing issues that would come up in the deal talks in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

But markets have a way of foreshadowing future shifts.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Scientists seeking a step-by-step guide to the novel science of artificial radioactivity needed to study Lauritsen; those seeking a foreshadowing of the new science’s possible harvest consulted Lawrence.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik