foreshadow
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The Tokyo figures, which often foreshadow nationwide trends, showed price pressures easing at the start of 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research noted in a client call on Nov. 10 that improvement in earnings growth and profit margins in the second and third quarters was too strong to foreshadow a recession.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite has seen several days when it was deeply in the red recently, which could foreshadow a true drawdown if any of these—or other—risks emerge.
From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025
While the novel’s title and early chapters foreshadow certain answers, readers will still find themselves tearing through pages and rooting for this little-known community and the families that lead it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2025
Sturtevant’s rudimentary genetic map would foreshadow the vast and elaborate efforts to map genes along the human genome in the 1990s.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing foreshadow
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 1
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