foreshadowing
Example Sentences
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Immediately after Goldman and Apple launched the card, rival issuers looked with raised eyebrows at some of the terms, foreshadowing issues that would come up in the deal talks in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
But markets have a way of foreshadowing future shifts.
From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025
Even the announcement of the Ashes squad was an anticlimactic foreshadowing of things to come.
From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025
Depictions of the digital afterlife in shows such as “Black Mirror” can feel bleak, foreshadowing a dystopian future where people get resurrected from the grave as chatbots and robots.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
Like all life-changing events, it happened unexpectedly and without any foreshadowing.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Vocabulary lists containing foreshadowing
Power Prefix: fore-
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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