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foretold

ADJECTIVE
known beforehand
Synonyms
STRONG
boded presaged


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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

As the journalist Robert Bryce foretold years ago: “Electric vehicles are the Next Big Thing, and they always will be.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

What follows is a chronicle of a death foretold.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2025

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

Wizards used to believe that the Augurey’s cry foretold death.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling




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