- present participle of forebode.
foreboding
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Her show has all the trappings of true-crime podcasts you’ve heard before—911 tape-recordings, foreboding music—but here’s the difference: The women at the center of these crimes are telling us their experiences.
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026
In Atlanta, her visionary cosmologies read as foreboding, otherworldly—paradise lost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Brook's first act of the day was a foreboding one for England.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
But a 0.1-percent dip in food services sales could reflect that people are opting to drive less -- a foreboding sign for broader spending in the services sector.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
All night he tried to choose his way, to plan where he should go, what he should do: but each choice, each plan was blocked by a foreboding of doom.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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All day, gray clouds clustered overhead, adding to forebodings, and ratifying forecasts of a gathering storm.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
The French government is relieved that its worst forebodings about the protests did not come to pass.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2018
Of course, all along there were forebodings, hints of the injuries and iniquities that so often seem to accompany utopias.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
This included a woman, her young child with a doll, the dead cat and forebodings about nuclear disaster and wave/particle duality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2014
Still full of forebodings of a hard winter, he foraged about for what he was sure was the last edible stuff on the island: various seeds, dry berries, mushrooms.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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