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A high ADR premium doesn’t necessarily foretell disaster—in 2008-09, TSMC’s fat premium was the result of Taiwanese shares’ falling much more than the ADRs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Social media is awash in content about the arcane: how-tos for spellcasting, psychics claiming to foretell the future and endless posts about casting out demons.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026

Perhaps it’s bear markets that foretell better times.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Her name was Annie—“just Annie,” no surname—and she was “just an orphan,” a nobody, really, but she never let her impoverished origins foretell her fate.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2024

The Augurey has a distinctive low and throbbing cry, which was once believed to foretell death.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

This foretells of a world where hydrocarbons are substituted by other energy sources.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

The “Skyscraper Index” foretells tough times for a city or country that’s just built the world’s tallest one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

If the coming days are anything like those of past years, analysts will try to make the case that the stock market’s performance at the beginning of January foretells its full-year direction.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026

Montiel takes a while to tip his hand that he’s after something more emotionally complex than the first act foretells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Mother warns how we act today foretells the whole year.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

But no one foretold that the star to whom the Dodgers agreed last winter to pay an average of $60 million each year would be, well, average.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Nothing of that great regional upheaval greedily foretold by the prophets of Western decline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

His three under par on the front nine of the second day at the North was noteworthy, but hardly foretold a round that would go into lore.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025

Then days and months grew full and waned, the year went wheeling round, the seasons came again, before at last the power of Iphiklos, relenting, freed the prisoner, who foretold all things to him.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

In the dark recesses of the U.S. economy, price pressures are bubbling up and foretelling another wave of inflation.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

That marvelous lighted scene, foretelling the end of Europe’s deadliest period, has stayed with me all these years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Critics have heaped praise on the new comedy series from Detectorists creator Mackenzie Crook, which follows a man who creates tiny creatures capable of foretelling the future and answering any question.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

A foretelling of last earthly smells, whether for the hunted or the hunter.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025

He lived on there, foretelling to the world the shape of things to come.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer