foretell
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With so many unknowns, nobody can possibly foretell which businesses will thrive in the years ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 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
What if she was like one of those evil fairy godmothers in a fairy tale, about to foretell an innocent baby’s doom?
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
"Additionally, our study revealed that multiyear La Niña are distinguished from single-year La Niña by a conspicuous onset rate, which foretells its accumulative intensity and climate impacts."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2023
Mother warns how we act today foretells the whole year.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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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
When the Fed eased after a market rout, it was usually reacting to what the decline foretold.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Of course, they don’t much resemble the levitating Studebakers and auto-gyrating Chevys foretold in pulp science fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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
Who could have foretold that all those years of stitching pithy wise sayings onto pillows would prove so useful?
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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In the dark recesses of the economy, price pressures are bubbling up and foretelling another wave of inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
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
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
That was the foretelling the Commandant spoke of in her office weeks ago, and now it suddenly makes sense.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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