foretold

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The extravagant and perhaps exaggerated promises of artificial superintelligence always foretold this outcome.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

An angel is thought to have foretold his birth to St Patrick, 30 years before it happened - although the exact date is believed to be some time between 462 and 515 AD.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 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

In his 1998 book “Paradise Lost,” Schrag sought not simply to foretell the region’s future, but to explicate how its future foretold what was in store for the country as a whole.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Apparently, the lady had heard that the child was the subject of a witches’ prophecy, but she did not know what it foretold.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman