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foretell

[fawr-tel, fohr-] / fɔrˈtɛl, foʊr- /


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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

It doesn’t foretell exogenous shocks, but many successful traders watch such measures of so-called market internals along with fundamentals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 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

It seemed to him ‘as something divine that men could know the motions of the stars so accurately that they could long before foretell their places and relative positions’.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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